Everyday Life in Southwest Bulgaria during Socialism

This fascinating collection sheds insight on generally unknown moments of everyday life in southwest Bulgaria during state socialism, including: the experience of and resistance against collectivization; experiences reflecting the religious policy of the communist regime (e.g. towards Muslims) and others elements of everyday life. The collection is one of the first created by the Balkan Society for Autobiography and Social Communication - Blagoevgrad (BSASC). It mainly consists of oral histories and photographic documentation, which aim to share ordinary people's experience of socialism.

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Umiestnenie:
- Blagoevgrad, South West University "Neofit Rilski"
- Blagoevgrad, South-West University, Bulgaria
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Dátum založenia:
- 1996
Významné predmety zbierky:
- My Dossier, Pardon, Biography
- Painting by Ventseslav Terziyski

Everyday life East. A digital guide to everyday life in the GDR

This digital guide to everyday life in the GDR is a project initiated in 2017 by Kooperative Berlin, a Berlin-based media association, in collaboration with the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship. The aim of the project is to create a digital guide to everyday life in the GDR by focusing on various places throughout the GDR. The project sheds light on a myriad of locations associated with activities tolerated or banned by the regime, which eventually impacted everyday life. The interactive platform was created with the purpose of providing tourists a tool to guide them to lesser-known places, which nevertheless provide broad insights into the stories and histories which made up everyday life in the GDR.

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Exhibits of European Solidarity Centre

This collection expresses the artistic tendencies in the last decades of Polish reality under socialist regime. It includes a huge number of graphics, posters, paintings and drawings, as well as some items produced by opposition members held under detention.

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Umiestnenie:
- Gdańsk, Poland
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Dátum založenia:
- 2008
Významné predmety zbierky:
- Portrait of an Unknown Man by Jacek Fedorowicz
- Sweater of Lech Wałęsa

Exile Collection of Czechoslovak Documentation Centre

The Collection of Czech Exile Literature (1948-1989), contains books of Czech and Slovak forbidden authors, by exile publishers. The collection includes a number of exile periodicals that have been published in the West since 1948.

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Umiestnenie:
- Na Zátorách 6, 170 00 Praha 7 - Holešovice, Czech Republic
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Dátum založenia:
- 1976
Významné predmety zbierky:
- Tatarka, Dominik: Písačky. 1979. Manuscript.

Family Collection of István Bibó's Heritage

István Bibó (1911–1979) was a Hungarian political scientist, sociologist, and scholar on the philosophy of law. During the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Bibó acted as the Minister of State for Imre Nagy’s second government. When the Soviets invaded and crushed the revolution, he was the last minister left at his post in the Hungarian parliament building. Rather than flee, he remained in the building and wrote his famous proclamation, “For Freedom and Truth,” until he awaited arrest. Bibó became a role model for dissident intellectuals in the late communist era and a symbol of non-violent civilian resistance based on a firm moral stand.
Since Bibó’s death in 1979, the family collection of his bequest, which includes personal documents, photos, manuscripts, books, and video and sound recordings, has been in the care of art historian and educator István Bibó Jr., who keeps the materials in his home in Budapest.

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