The Alexandru Călinescu private collection epitomises the trajectory of an intellectual in an important university city who began to practise a camouflaged contestation, published in local student magazines, with a limited readership, and ended up in unequivocal public opposition, disseminated transnationally through foreign radio stations. The collection marks some of the key episodes in the movement of resistance to and contestation of the communist regime as it manifested itself in Iaşi, the historical capital of the region of Moldavia and the city with the oldest university in the Old Kingdom of Romania. At the same time, the collection and the personal story of Alexandru Călinescu illustrate a lesson in dignity in very difficult times, when there were few who had the courage to speak openly against the Ceaușescu regime.

Location:
- Iași Strada Păcurari 8, Romania
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Date of founding:
- 1971
Featured items:
- Informative note of the Securitate regarding Alexandru Călinescu, 1989
- Swiss Hermes Baby typewriter

Archives of Weeks of Christian Culture / Artists’ Priesthood

The Weeks of Christian Culture and the Artists’ Priesthood were the very important cultural initiatives of the Polish Catholic Church, organised since the 1970s. They were the first nation-wide platform for artists of various professions, who were given a chance to speak freely and to show their works to the society – regardless of their beliefs. The participants had the opportunity to interact with independent culture, prohibited or absent from the official circulation. The collection includes both the documents on the initiatives’ history and the works of art created by its participants.

Location:
- Zbuczyn, Poland
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Date of founding:
- 1975
Featured items:
- Press Clippings about the Weeks of Christian Culture

Audiovisual Section at Libri Prohibiti

The Audiovisual Section of the Libri Prohibiti library contains recordings of non-conformist music and spoken word, underground lectures and seminars. It also contains video-documents and amateur film productions. The unavailability of the original recordings and total content consisting of thousands of exemplars makes the collection unique in the Czech context.

Location:
- Senovážné nám. 2, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic
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Date of founding:
- 1993
Featured items:
- Cassette covers of unofficial Czechoslovak music groups from the 1980s, 1988. Book

Barbara Fatyga Archive

Private archive of prof. Barbara Fatyga gathers thousands of materials regarding Polish youth culture in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The archive is an effect of various research projects led by Fatyga and her co-workers – initially at the Institute for Youth Problems Research and later in the Youth Research Centre in the Institute of Applied Sciences at the Warsaw University. The archive contains youth fanzines and cassettes as well as recordings and transcripts of biographical interviews.

Location:
- Warszawa Nowy Świat 69, Poland 00
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Date of founding:
- 1988
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Božena Komárková Collection at the Moravian Museum

The collection contains materials describing the activities of the Brno´s Protestant dissent, the philosopher Božena Komárková. It also documents lectures from the secretive meetings held in Božena Komárková’s apartment.

Location:
- Hudcova 76, 612 00 Brno, Czech Republic
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Date of founding:
- 1920
Featured items:
- Transcript of the interview from the underground university´s lecture of Božena Komárková