alternativni oblici obrazovanja
alternativni životni stilovi i otpor u svakodnevnici
avangarda, neoavangarda
cenzura
demokratska opozicija društveni pokreti državni nadzor
etnički pokreti
feministički pokret
film filozofski/teoretski pokreti glazba
iseljeništvo/egzil
kazalište i izvedbene umjetnosti
književnost i književna kritika kritička znanost
lijepe umjetnosti
manjinski pokreti
mirovni pokreti nacionalni pokreti narodna kultura
nezavisno novinarstvo
omladinska kultura partijski disidenti
pokreti za ljudska prava
popularna kultura
preživjele žrtve progona autoritarnih/totalitarnih režima
prizivatelji savjesti
samizdat i tamizdat
studentski pokreti umjetnosti novih medija underground kultura
vizualne umjetnosti
vjerski aktivizam zaštita okoliša
znanstvena kritika
crteži i karikature
film
fotografije
glasovne snimke
glazbene snimke
grafike memorabilije
namještaj
odjeća ostala umjetnička djela
ostalo
pravna i/ili financijska dokumentacija predmeti primijenjene umjetnosti publikacije rukopisi
rukotvorine siva literatura
skulpture
slike tehnička oprema video snimke
The VONS collection of Libri Prohibiti comprises of documents created by VONS – the Committee for the Defense of the Unjustly Prosecuted. The basis of the VONS collection is the archive of this organisation created mainly at the end of the 1970s and in the first half of the 1980s.
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.
Vasyl Stus was an iconic figure of the human rights movement in Soviet Ukraine and one of the leading Ukrainian poets of his generation. Volumes of his poetry circulated widely through samizdat in the 1960s-1980s. While conducting searches, the KGB would find his works in the homes of every writer, artist, chemist, and human rights activist, whose activities were cause for concern. As with many writers, Stus’s struggle with the Soviet regime, particularly his brutal incarceration and torture in a Soviet prison camp, which led to his death in 1985, have in many ways overshadowed his human and artistic legacy. The Vasyl Stus Collection at the T. H. Shevchenko Institute of Literature in Kyiv was donated by the Stus family after Ukrainian independence in 1991, with the aim of popularizing and making more accessible his writings. These materials include previously unknown works, volumes of Stus’s vast correspondence, as well as fragments of writings that survived his imprisonment in strict-regime hard labor camps in Mordovia and Perm.
This ad-hoc collection was separated from the fonds of judicial files concerning persons subject to political repression during the communist regime, which is currently stored in the Archive of the Intelligence and Security Service of the Republic of Moldova (formerly the KGB Archive). It focuses on the case of Viktor Koval, an engineer of Russian ethnic background who expressed ”anti-Soviet” political opinions during the late 1970s and early 1980s, when he was working at an electrical equipment factory in the city of Bălți. In August 1982, Koval was found guilty of “spreading calumnies and lies aimed at discrediting the Soviet state and social order.” However, instead of being sentenced to prison, he was sent to a special psychiatric facility of the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD), where he spent almost eight years before being released in May 1990. Koval’s case is a revealing example of the use of punitive psychiatry in order to suppress voices critical of the Soviet regime. His file is also significant in the context of the early 1980s, usually viewed as a period featuring few open manifestations of oppositional activity.