Invisible Society of Soviet-era Lithuania

The collection consists of more than 500 recorded interviews with national (Sąjūdis), dissident and ex-Soviet figures, and from the cultural opposition and informal groups, conducted during two research projects in 2009-2015. It is the biggest database of oral history on the Soviet past in Lithuania.

Location:
- 01130 Vilnius Vokiečių gatvė 10 , Lithuania
Topics:
- environmental protection (e.g. antinuclear movement)
- samizdat and tamizdat
Date of founding:
- 2015
Featured items:
- Interview with Albertas Žilinskas

Ion Dumitru Collection at IICCMER

The Ion Dumitru Collection is the richest and most diverse of all the private archives of the Romanian exile community, which makes it indispensable for the study of the history of postwar Romanian exile. The collection is also a fundamental source for documenting and understanding Romania's (domestic and foreign) political, cultural, economic, and social evolution during both the communist and post-communist periods. At the same time, this private archive is a historical source both for understanding how the Bucharest authorities acted to divide the Romanians abroad and to counteract their actions aimed at unmasking the wrondoings of the communist regime between 1948 and 1989 in the West and for how Romanians within the country perceived the emigrant community.

Location:
- București Strada Alecu Russo 13, Romania 030167
Topics:
Date of founding:
- 1961
Featured items:
- Letter from Ion Dumitru to Leonid Mămăligă, in Romanian, 8 August 1982, Munich
- Letter from Ion Dumitru to Virgil Veniamin, in Romanian, 23 February 1980, Munich

Ion Monoran Private Collection

The Ion Monoran Collection documents the intellectual profile of one of the leaders of the underground cultural movements in the Banat, who, thanks to his ability to catalyse the action of the crowd gathered in the streets of Timişoara on 16 December 1989, became one of the figures who incontestably made a mark on the Romanian Revolution.

Location:
- Timișoara Strada Emanoil Ungureanu 3, Romania
Topics:
Date of founding:
- 1972
Featured items:

Irina Margareta Nistor Private Collection

The Irina Margareta Nistor Private Collection includes a series of written documents, together with a few dozen VHS video cassettes preserving a small part of the Western films that were introduced clandestinely into Romania between 1985 and 1989, to be translated and dubbed and then distributed on video cassettes (semi)clandestinely. This collection epitomises a popular culture phenomenon without any equivalent in Eastern Europe, which emerged in Romania as a reaction to the reduction of the official programme broadcast on television channels to just two hours per day and to news broadcasts about the activity of Nicolae Ceauşescu and the leadership of the Romanian Communist Party.

Location:
- București Strada Dumitru Iorgulescu 11, Romania
Topics:
Date of founding:
- 1985
Featured items:
- Nistor, Irina Margareta. Inventory of films translated, 1985-1989. Manuscripts
- VHS Video Cassettes with Western Films Dubbed in Romanian, 1985-1989

Istrian Fighter Digital Collection

The Istrian Fighter Digital Collection is available at the University Library of Pula website. It is the collection of the first Croatian youth journal Istrian Fighter/IBOR, which was published in Pula from 1953 to 1979 (with two minor interruptions). The journal was published by the Istrian Fighter Literary Club with the objective of preserving the Croatian language in Istria. The journal developed a reputation as a critical media in the 1970s, covering more and more cultural, local and social themes whose tone was not well-received by the socialist authorities, so the financing of the journal was cancelled in 1979 after which it ceased publication.

Location:
- Pula Hercuov prolaz 1, Croatia 52100
Topics:
Date of founding:
- 2015
Featured items:
- IBORs last issue, 1979. Newspaper
- Verdict against the IBOR editorial board published in Polet, 1980. Newspaper