alternativni način života i otpor svakodnevnih, alternativni oblici obrazovanja
avantgarda, neoavantgarda
cenzura
demokratska opozicija društveni pokreti državni nadzor
emigracija/ izgnanstvo
etnički pokreti
film filozofski/ teorijski pokreti
književnost i književna kritika kritička nauka
likovna umetnost
manjinski pokreti medijska umetnost
mirovni pokreti muzika nacionalni pokreti narodna kultura
naučna kritika
nezavisno novinarstvo
pokret za ljudska prava
popularna kultura
preživjeli progona pod autoritarnim / totalitarnim režimima
prigovarači savesti
religiozni aktivizam
samizdat and tamizdat stranački disidenti
studentski pokret
theatre and Performing Arts underground culture
visual arts
women’s movement
youth culture zaštita prirode
artefakti
drugi drugi umetnički radovi
film
fotografije
grafika memorabilija
muzički snimci
nacrt i karikature
nameštaj
odeća
oprema
pravna i/ili financijska dokumentacjia predmeti primenjene umetnosti
publikacije rukopisi siva literatura
skulpture
slike
snimanje glasa
video snimci
The records of Croatian-American sociologist Dinko Tomašić are deposited at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University. In accordance with its own themes and periodization, it covers Tomašić's public work after the Second World War, when he settled in the United States as a political émigré. The collection testifies to Tomašić's sociological research, in which he critically examined political and social phenomena of post-war communist society in Croatia and Yugoslavia. The main thesis of Tomašić's sociological theory was that the revolutionary transformation of society and the huge growth of the party-state’s power destroyed political, economic, social and cultural pluralism in the public life of the Yugoslav nations. Based on his sociological methods, and making use of results the fields of ethnography and anthropology, he believed that the source of the Yugoslav revolution derived from the specific Dinaric culture, which belonged to economically passive territories, regions where the Partisan movement secured the great support, such as Montenegro, Dalmatia, Lika, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Leipzig was not only scene to the Monday Demonstrations of autumn 1989 that spread across the GDR and brought the regime to collapse, but also home to numerous youth, peace, environmental and human rights groups. The Civic Movement Archive in Leipzig houses the largest collection of documents relating to the histories of these groups.
The collection commemorates the life and historical documents collected by György Krassó, who was a significant figure of the Hungarian democratic opposition in the 1960-1980s. In his political dissident, Krassó was the founder of the Hungarian October Free Press Information Bureau in London. Its documents are a rich source on the late socialist period and the regime change in Hungary.
The collection includes the documents of the Danube Circle Association, which was a non-governmental organization in opposition to the government’s project to construct a River Barrage Dam near Nagymaros (Hungary) in the 1980s. The Danube Circle movement tried to prevent the construction of the dam with samizdats, public debates, and protests. The Circle was one of the new types of alternative movements, which expanded the base of the “traditional” intellectual opposition.
Doina Cornea was a leading dissident in communist Romania, who started by criticising the educational and cultural policies of Ceaușescu’s regime and issuing some modest samizdat materials, and ended up as the driving force behind several collective actions against the arbitrary actions of Ceaușescu’s regime and the trigger of the most significant transnational network in defence of the Romanian villages menaced with destruction by the regime. Accordingly, the Doina Cornea Ad-Hoc Collection at CNSAS constitutes one of the largest collections of documents referring to one single individual and includes not only records created by the secret police while trying to counter her actions, but also materials confiscated as evidence of those actions.