Mihnea Berindei Collection at the Romanian National Archives - Iași Branch

The Mihnea Berindei Collection comprises a significant part of the founder’s personal archive. These materials were accumulated in exile during the period 1977–1989, when Berindei was actively involved in assisting Romanian dissidents persecuted by the Ceauşescu regime. He was also an important intermediary between the fledgling Romanian opposition movement and the Western press, public opinion, and political establishment, playing a crucial role in publicising and enhancing the visibility of the Romanian case in the West. The major part of Mihnea Berindei’s personal archive is currently stored at the Iași Branch of the Romanian National Archives (Serviciul Județean Iași al Arhivelor Naționale). These papers were donated to the archives in 2013 and 2016. They include a variety of materials relating to communist Romania, the policies of the Ceauşescu regime and various manifestations of Romanian dissent (including cases of specific dissidents). The collection features a rich selection of documents relating to the activity of Radio Free Europe (RFE) during the 1980s, when Berindei was closely associated with the station’s Romanian-language service. The collection also contains a series of materials dealing with Eastern European developments in the 1990s. This is one of the most important private archives concerning communist Romania created in exile. As such, it will be of utmost significance to interested researchers and the wider public.

Location:
- Iași Bulevardul Carol I 26, Romania 700505
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Date of founding:
- 1977
Featured items:
- Essay by Dorin Tudoran: Cold or Fear? About the Condition of Today’s Romanian Intellectual (in Romanian). 1984.
- File (dossier) concerning the case of Vasile Paraschiv (in Romanian and French). 1977-78.

Miko Tripalo Collection

The Miko Tripalo Collection testify to the activities of Miko Tripalo, one of the key personalities of the Croatian Spring - the liberal reform movement of Croatian communists, intellectuals and students who, with the widest public support, tried to initiate changes aimed at equality between nations and the democratisation of society in socialist Croatia and Yugoslavia. After the fall of the Croatian Spring in late 1971, Tripalo became one of the most prominent dissidents. He became a symbol of national resistance and the struggle for democracy. After the fall of communism, he became an active politician and a committed advocate of an open society and human rights. By the end of his life, he expanded his collection with new documents and manuscripts.

Location:
- Zagreb Ilica 5, Croatia 10000
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Date of founding:
- 2003
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Milan Uhde Collection at the Moravian Museum

The collection of Milan Uhde documents the life of an important writer, later a signatory of the Charter 77, who at the time of normalisation could not officially publish, and after 1989 a parliamentary deputy and a minister of culture. The collection is composed of Milan Uhde's sequencing material, covering the period predominantly from the 1960s to the present.

Location:
- Hudcova 76, 612 00 Brno, Czech Republic
Topics:
- human rights movements
- literature and literary criticism
Date of founding:
- 2010
Featured items:
- Milan Uhde's letter of protest against his dismissal from the magazine "Host to the House"

Milan Šimečka Collection of the Czechoslovak Documentation Centre

Milan Šimečka (1930-1990) was a Czech and Slovak philosopher, essayist and publicist. He was one of the prominent personalities of the Czechoslovak opposition from 1968. He published in samizdat and exile, and for this he was detained illegally for a year. The collection contains mainly texts and correspondence.

Location:
- Na Zátorách 6, 170 00 Praha 7 - Holešovice, Czech Republic
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Date of founding:
- 1950
Featured items:
- Chess pieces made of bread by Milan Šimečka

Mircea Carp Collection at BCU Cluj-Napoca

The Mircea Carp Collection includes original documents and copies gathered by its creator during his activity as a journalist for the radio stations Voice of America and RFE in the period 1955–1995. This collection is one of the largest collections related to the activity of the Romanian emigration. It illustrates the instrumental role that these two radio agencies played in the case of communist Romania as alternative sources of information and transmission belts between critical intellectuals and society.

Location:
- Cluj-Napoca Strada Clinicilor 2, Romania 400000
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Date of founding:
- 1955
Featured items:
- Letter from an unknown Romanian citizen to Voice of America, in Romanian, September 1989
- Unknown author. Romanian Section of VOA commenting the Hungarian Revolution, October 1956. Photo