Aktionsgruppe Banat Ad-hoc Collection at CNSAS

The Aktionsgruppe Banat Ad-hoc Collection reflects the type of cultural opposition represented by a group of Romanian-German writers, who founded together the literary circle Aktionsgruppe Banat and developed a neo-Marxist criticism of “really existing socialism.” The collection comprises two types of items: (1) manuscripts and other materials confiscated by the Securitate from these writers, (2) documents issued by the Securitate concerning their cultural activity, which the communist regime perceived as dangerous.

Location:
- București Strada Matei Basarab 55, Romania 030167
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Featured items:
- Aktionsgruppe Banat. Engagement, in German, 1974. Manuscript
- Ortinau, Gerhard. The street ballad of the ten parts of speech of the traditional grammar, in German, 1974. Manuscript

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

Ferenc Fejtő Library

Ferenc Fejtő was an original, democratic leftist thinker. His library is a unique trace of the criticism of Eastern European rightist, authoritarianist, socialist dictatorship, and Western European leftist romanticism. Fejtő, who maintained strong connections with European intellectual elites, left Hungary for France in 1938, yet remained deeply committed to the fate of freedom-lacking Eastern Europe.

Location:
- Fehérvárcsurgó Petőfi Sándor utca 2, Hungary 8052
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Date of founding:
- 1998
Featured items:
- Dedicated book by Géza Vermes to Ferenc Fejtő, 2000.

Fištrović Collection

The Fištrović Collection of the Fran Galović Library and Reading Room in Koprivnica contains about 1,300 historical, political, economic and cultural books in English, many of which are the only copies in Croatia. The books were used by a group of Croatian intellectuals in Chicago in the 1990s to address the American public and advocate for a democratic and independent Croatia, which can be considered a final act of resistance to the Yugoslav socialist regime. The authors of some of the books are also intellectuals from the former Yugoslav republics, and their work, published in English, is evidence of their dissent against the Yugoslav system of government.

Location:
- Koprivnica Zrinski trg 6, Croatia 48000
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Date of founding:
- 2002
Featured items:
- Đilas, Milovan. Rise and Fall, 1985. Book
- Đilas, Milovan. The new class: an analysis of the communist system, 1983. Book

Illegal Groups in Kosovo (1945 - 1990) collection

This private collection addresses the topic of illegal groups operating in Kosovo between 1945 and 1990. The collection contains documents, court decisions, interviews (transcribed and in audio file format) as well as relevant literature on the topic gathered by Sabile Keçmezi-Basha, illustrating a half-century of resistance against the Yugoslav political system.

Location:
- Bregu i Diellit, Prishtinë
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Date of founding:
- 1980
Featured items:
- Judicial process against the illegal group "Prizren League" in 1950