alternatīvais dzīvesveids un ikdienas pretošanās alternatīvas izglītības formas
autoritāro/totalitāro režīmu vajāšanas pārdzīvojušie avangarda kultūra
avangards, neoavangards
cenzūra
cilvēki, kas apzināti atsakās no karadienesta reliģisku vai idejisku motīvu vadīti
cilvēktiesību kustība dabas aizsardzība
demokrātiskā opozīcija
emigrācija/trimda
etniskas kustības
filma filozofiskas/teorētiskas kustības
jaunatnes kultūra kritiskā zinātne
literatūra un literatūras kritika mediju māksla
miera kustības
minoritāšu kustības mūzika nacionālās kustības
neatkarīgā žurnālistika partijas disidenti
populārā kultūra
reliģisks aktīvisms
samizdats un tamizdats
sieviešu kustība sociālās kustības
studentu kustība tautas kultūra
teātris un izpildītājmākslas
tēlotājmāksla uzraudzība
vizuālā māksla
zinātniskā kritika
aprīkojums
apģērbs
artefakti
audioieraksti citi mākslas darbi
cits
filma
fotogrāfijas
gleznas
grafika
juridiska un/vai finanšu dokumentācija
karikatūras lietišķās mākslas priekšmeti manuskripti
mēbeles
mūzikas ieraksti pelēkā literatūra piemiņlietas
publikācijas
skulptūras
videoieraksti
Vanda Zaborskaitė (1922-2010) was a professor of Lithuanian literature. In 1961, she was dismissed from her position as a lecturer at Vilnius University because of her 'nationalism'. After that, she found a position at the Lithuanian Institute of History. While she had other research topics at the institute, she also worked on Lithuanian literature, researching a very disapproved of topic at the time, the work and activities of the Lithuanian poet Jonas Mačiulis-Maironis (1862-1932). Maironis was a Catholic priest, who used strong patriotic and nationalist expression in his works, and the Soviet regime had to consider how to interpret his legacy, what parts of his work should be available to society, and what should be seen as religious.
The collection of the writer Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas holds various documents: notes, correspondence and manuscripts. The documents illustrate very well the situation of intellectuals and writers in Soviet Lithuania. The government considered Mykolaitis-Putinas to be a famous Lithuanian writer, but on the other hand it tried to control his creative work. During the Late Stalinist period, the writer was often criticised by Party officials.
Vjesnik Newspaper Documentation is an archival collection created in the Vjesnik newspaper publishing enterprise from 1964 to 2006. It includes about twelve million press clippings, organized into six thousand topics and sixty thousand dossiers on public persons. Inter alia, it documents various forms of cultural opposition in the former Yugoslavia, but also in other communist countries in Europe and worldwide.
Vytautas Skuodis (1929-2016) was a Lithuanian scientist, Soviet dissident and former political prisoner. From 1979, he was a member of the dissident organisation the Lithuanian Helsinki Group. In 1978, he initiated and edited the journal Perspektyvos (Perspectives), the most recognised underground publication among the Lithuanian intelligentsia. The Vytautas Skuodis collection holds various manuscripts of Skuodis’ monograhs, a PhD dissertation, articles, lectures, letters, reviews of diploma works by students, notes, memoirs and diaries. These documents are relevant to the topic of cultural opposition, because they reveal personally the involvement of Skuodis and other people in anti-Soviet activities.
The Václav Havel Collection at the Museum of Czech Literature contains letters of the dramatist, poet and president of the Czech Republic Václav Havel (1936–2011) to his wife Olga, written from prison between 1979 and 1983. Havel’s unique prison correspondence documents the life of this significant artist and philosopher, as well as the life of his wife before 1989.