The archival fond Zhelyu Zhelev at the Central State Archive portrays the life and the creative and political work of Zhelyu Zhelev. Zhelev, a prominent philosopher, was one of the most well-known dissidents in Bulgaria and, in August 1990, became the first democratically elected president of Bulgaria (he was in office until 1997). The collection contains numerous materials documenting the attempts by the communist government to impose total control over intellectual and scientific activities; at the same time, it shows different forms of resistance and opposition by various individuals and groups. The collection holds essential documents, which can help us reconstruct Zhelev’s ideas and activism, including documents on the Club for Support of Openness and Reconstruction, which was among the first dissident organizations in Bulgaria.

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Atrašanās vieta:
- Sofia, Moskovska Str. N 5
Temati:
Izveidošanas datums:
- 1997
Nozīmīgi vienumi:
- Genesis / Matter and Oblivion
- The Fascism

Zina Genyk-Berezovska Collection

The Zina Genyk-Berezovska Collection at the T.H. Shevchenko Institute of Literature in Kyiv is crucial for understanding the transnational networks underpinning cultural opposition in Ukraine and the Ukrainian diaspora community in Prague. The latter was largely composed of anti-Bolshevik émigrés that had fled to Czechoslovakia in the 1920s, after their failed attempt to establish the Ukrainian National Republic amid the chaos of the First World War. Genyk-Berezovska was born and raised in this community, studied Slavic languages and literatures at Charles University in Prague, later teaching and translating Ukrainian literature into Czech. Through personal connections, Genyk-Berezovska was also deeply involved in the cultural renaissance in Soviet Ukraine known as the sixtiers movement.

In addition to the more than 800 letters Genyk-Berezovska received from her many correspondents in Ukraine, her archive contains her own works as a scholar of Ukrainian and Czech literature, translator, and prominent community figure, as well as those of her husband Kost’ Genyk-Berezovsky, a philologist who taught Ukrainian at Charles University in Prague. Their family archive served as a repository for materials about prominent members of the Ukrainian émigré community in Czechoslovakia, including the Ukrainian sculptor Mykhailo Brynsky, the Czech writer František Hlaváček, the Ukrainian chemist and statesman Ivan Horbachevskyi, and Petro Krytskyi, a former colonel in the Ukrainian National Republican army, among others. This unique collection highlights both the transnational and the intergenerational dimensions of Ukrainian cultural opposition to communism.

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Atrašanās vieta:
- Kyiv Henerala Almazova Street 8, Ukraine 02000
- Kyiv, 4 Hrushevskoho St., 01001, Ukraine
Temati:
Izveidošanas datums:
- 1940
Nozīmīgi vienumi:

Zoltán Kallós Ethnographic Private Collection

Zoltán Kallós’s Ethnographic Collection constitutes one of the most successful individual attempts at saving folk culture. This collection of material and spiritual items was carried out with the purpose of preserving not only the Hungarian cultural heritage, but also the ethnical diversity of the Transylvanian Plain (CâmpiaTransilvaniei in Romanian; Mezőség in Hungarian), as well as the collective identity of the Roman Catholic population of Moldavian Csángós. The collector successfully defied the political practice of the Romanian communist regime that aimed at socially and culturally homogenising Romania.

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Atrašanās vieta:
- Comuna Bonțida, Răscruci, Romania
Temati:
Izveidošanas datums:
- 1942
Nozīmīgi vienumi:
- Kallós, Zoltán and Attila Szabó T. Book of Ballads: Living Hungarian Folk Ballads from Romania, in Hungarian, 1970. Book
- “Clean Room” of Răscruci village

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

Zoran Đinđić Library at the Zoran Đinđić Foundation

This is the collection of the prominent intellectual and dissident of the SFR Yugoslavia, Zoran Đinđić. During his studies at the beginning of the 70s, Đinđić was active in a leftist oppositional student movement. After being tried for attempting to organize an alternative independent student union, he left Yugoslavia for Germany and only returned at the beginning of the 90s.
After the disintegration of Yugoslavia, Đinđić was one of the most important leaders of the opposition movement during the 1990s, and between 2001 and 2003 he served as prime minister of Serbia. The collection consists of books which Đinđić accumulated from his student days up until his assassination.

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Atrašanās vieta:
- Beograd Zmaja od Noćaja, Serbia
Temati:
- demokrātiskā opozīcija
- filozofiskas/teorētiskas kustības (nemarksisti, maoisti, reformsociālisti utt.)
Nozīmīgi vienumi:
- Đinđić, Zoran. Yugoslavia as an Incomplete State, 1988. Book