Skilling H. Gordon Collection of the Czechoslovak Documentation Centre

Skilling H. Gordon (1912-2001) was a prominent Canadian historian, political scientist and Slavist. His life and work were closely linked to the dramatic fate of Czechoslovakia from the late 1930s to the 1989 Velvet Revolution.

Location:
- Na Zátorách 6, 170 00 Praha 7 - Holešovice, Czech Republic
Topics:
Date of founding:
- 1976
Featured items:
- Photos of Golden Wedding of H. Gordon Skilling and his wife in Prague, 1987.

Slovak Office for Press and Information

The archival fund of the Slovak Office for Press and Information (Slovenský úrad pre tlač a informácie, SÚTI) stored in the Slovak National Archive in Bratislava, contains a wide range of material dedicated to mechanisms of ideological control over mass media during the years 1968 to 1988. The collections of journalistic analyses and various forms of media assessments are especially significant for research in the field of cultural opposition. The fund enables an undistorted overview of critical reports of media accomplishments, those which did not conform to the new, “consolidating” principles. The SÚTI fund thus demonstrates not only the gradual establishment of a new ideological orientation of the Czechoslovak Communist Party but also indicates its questionable adoption by official press bodies.

Location:
- Bratislava Drotárska cesta 42, Slovakia 811 02
Topics:
- censorship
Date of founding:
- 1990
Featured items:
- External Assessments of the Press and Broadcast 1968-1969

Slovak Samizdat Online Collection

The website brings together reproductions of, and information about, Slovak samizdat journals in the period from 1982 to 1989 that are registered in UNESCO's "Memory of the World" list. Specifically, it contains Christian samizdat in Slovakia, which are relatively little known, and provides information about their production and the organization of groups that issued samizdat. Several dozen Catholic samizdat are freely accessible.

Location:
- Šintava, Slovakia
Topics:
- samizdat and tamizdat
Date of founding:
- 2016
Featured items:
- Rodinné spoločenstvo 4/1985
- ZrNO 1/1989

Slovenian State Security Administration's Surveillance of Maks Samec, ad hoc collection

The collection of the Slovenian State Security Administration's (UDB-a) surveillance materials about Maks Samec illustrates the mechanism and extent of control exercised by the UDB-a against a Slovenian scientist (chemist) of the older generation (Maks Samec). After 1945, Samec was perceived as an irreplaceable scientist, but also politically suspect, even a potential political and ideological adversary, so he was placed under surveillance.

Location:
- Ljubljana Zvezdarska ulica 1, Slovenia 1000
Topics:
- scientific criticism
- surveillance (various)
Date of founding:
- 1945
Featured items:
- Report of UDBAs Associate Agata Murovič, 1950. Manuscript
- Report on the visit of an UDBA agent provocateur to Maks Samec’s wife, 1949. Manuscript

Smiljana Rendić Collection

The Smiljana Rendić Collection is stored at the Archdiocesan Archives in Zagreb. The collection documents the cultural and opposition work of Croatian journalist and intellectual Smiljana Rendić. The collection is particularly important to learning about the existence of the Catholic "underground" in socialist Croatia, which included an entire network of Catholic lay people who gathered around the Catholic Church and were opposed to the regime and its official ideology.

Location:
- Zagreb Kaptol ulica 27/A, Croatia 10000
Topics:
- national movements (patriotic opposition)
- religious activism
Date of founding:
- 1930
Featured items:
- Rendić, Smiljana. “Crkva u getu” (The Church in a ghetto), 1969. Manuscript
- Rendić, Smiljana. “Izlazak iz genitiva ili drugi hrvatski preporod” (Departure from the genitive or the second Croatian national revival), 1971. Manuscript