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Zbirka Alenke Puhar o pokretu za ljudska prava u Sloveniji/Jugoslaviji najvećim je dijelom nastala u 1980-im godinama i svjedoči o borbi slovenskih i jugoslavenskih aktivista za promicanje i zaštitu ljudskih prava u Jugoslaviji. Alenka Puhar bila je jedna od ključnih ljudi u akciji iz 1983. za ukidanje smrtne kazne u Jugoslaviji, kao i u organizaciji masovnih prosvjeda u Ljubljani 1988. te u slovenskom proljeću krajem 1980-ih. Zbirka dokumentira borbu i povezanost slovenskih aktivista s jugoslavenskim aktivistima i disidentima koji su imali kao zajednički cilj promicanje i zaštitu ljudskih prava u Jugoslaviji, te u konačnici slom komunističkoga režima. 

The Alexandru Călinescu private collection epitomises the trajectory of an intellectual in an important university city who began to practise a camouflaged contestation, published in local student magazines, with a limited readership, and ended up in unequivocal public opposition, disseminated transnationally through foreign radio stations. The collection marks some of the key episodes in the movement of resistance to and contestation of the communist regime as it manifested itself in Iaşi, the historical capital of the region of Moldavia and the city with the oldest university in the Old Kingdom of Romania. At the same time, the collection and the personal story of Alexandru Călinescu illustrate a lesson in dignity in very difficult times, when there were few who had the courage to speak openly against the Ceaușescu regime.

The Andrei Pandele private collection is the most significant testimony in pictures, mainly black and white, to the demolition of historic monuments and districts in the Romanian capital in the period of late communism. Together with photographs that are essential for the preservation of the memory of a mutilated city and a vanished cultural heritage, the collection also includes a series of images capturing aspects of the degradation everyday life throughout the profound crisis of the 1980s. These suggest both the absurdity of the policies of the Ceaușescu regime and the grotesque mutations in the everyday routine of ordinary people to which these policies gave rise.