Varieties of Religious Dissent Ad-hoc Collection at CNSAS

The collection reflects the variety of religious dissent in communist Romania, and illustrates the underground religious practices and overt religious oppositional activities from the late 1940s until the 1980s. The collection comprises, on the one hand, documents and other cultural artefacts created by various religious denominations and confiscated by the Securitate and, on the other hand, documents created by the secret police. The latter illustrate the intense surveillance and the repressive policies of the secret police directed towards those religious activities that opposed the policies of the communist regime in Romania.

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Atrašanās vieta:
- București Strada Matei Basarab 55, Romania 030167
Temati:
Nozīmīgi vienumi:
- The Neo-protestant Denominations and Human Rights in [communist] Romania, in Romanian, 1977. Open letter
- The legal situation and the clandestine activities of the Jehovah’s Witnesses religious group, in Romanian, 1982. Report

Zbigniew Libera Archive

Zbigniew Libera is one of the most renown Polish visual artists. He is considered to be the key figure of the Polish „critical art” of the 1990s and a pioneer of video art, which he had created since the early 1980s. Libera’s archive comprises materials from his childhood and youth (until 1991). These include notes, drawings, documents, photographs and video recordings, as well as his early edited works from the time when he participated in the Pitch-in Culture artistic milieu in Łódź.

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Atrašanās vieta:
- Warszawa Pańska 3, Poland
Temati:
Izveidošanas datums:
- 1959
Nozīmīgi vienumi:
- Intimate Rites and Mystical Perseverance, Z. Libera, art videos
- Untitled (Hommage À Gawron), Z. Libera, photo series

Zoltán Rostás Oral History Private Collection

The Zoltán Rostás private collection stands out as something unique in the context of the Romania of the 1980s and an extraordinary example of a passion that developed in the grey zone of tolerance permitted by the regime into a profession after the fall of the regime. The oral history interviews recorded by the owner of the collection, which capture not only societal changes but also the cultural diversity that still existed in the Bucharest of those years, contradict the official homogenising vision of the party-state and constitute documents of social history without parallel in the period in question. This collection also preserved the memory of the school of sociology that was destroyed by the communist regime and, after 1989, it made a decisive contribution towards the institutionalisation of oral history in the academic world of Romania.

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Atrašanās vieta:
- București Strada Valea Argeșului 20, Romania 061936
Temati:
Izveidošanas datums:
- 1980
Nozīmīgi vienumi:
- Lena Constante and Harry Brauner, interview by Zoltán Rostás, in Romanian, 1985. Tape recording
- UHER Tape recorder