"Mozgó Világ." Collection of a Prohibited Journal

The collection of the banned journal “Mozgó Világ” (World in Move), emerging out of a retrospective exhibition, provides unique insight into the stormy history that started to unfold in the 1970s as the outcome of the decision of young writers, artists, and scholars to regain their right to radically criticize the regime, to organize their own groups, and to engage in some overt conflicts, if needed.

Manuscript magazines at the Estonian Cultural History Archives

The collection of manuscript magazines at the Estonian Cultural History Archives reflects the samizdat activities of writers and other cultural figures during Soviet times. It was formed in the 1990s after several donations, mostly from Jaan Isotamm. Nevertheless, the ‘almanac movement’ had numerous authors, outsiders as well as those recognised by the authorities whose works are now available in this collection. The collection contains manuscript magazines, poetry written in refugee camps, and material about religious movements and groups dealing with esoteric issues, etc. It also includes underground almanacs from Soviet times. These handwritten journals were not censored, and contain literary essays and poems, as well as socio-critical writings.

Location:
- Tartu Vanemuise 42, Estonia 51003
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Featured items:
- Samizdat magazine "Marm"

Marelyin Kiss József's Collection

The Collection of Political Transition, founded and owned by József Marelyin Kiss, contains both private and public documents. Beginning from the year 1985, the collection is unique for its enormous volume and content concerning political organizations and groups as well as the cultural opposition of the late 1980s. The main parts of the collection are documents of the Hungarian opposition parties, documents of urban and rural sociological research, and a library with 3-4,000 books.

Location:
- Budapest Ludovika tér 2, Hungary 1083
Topics:
- critical science (against state-supported)
- democratic opposition
Date of founding:
- 1985
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Margita Múčková Collection

Margita Múčková and her brother actively helped to spread the Gospel on the territory of Slovakia from 1970 onward. Múčková devoted herself to the transcription of samizdats and Christian literature and to their further dissemination. She co-organized secret meetings of young Christian couples and families, as well as spiritual exercises. The purpose of the activities of this secret church network was to raise children in a different spirit than that of the prevailing communist ideology. The collection contains, in particular, spiritual literature, photographs, and audio recordings of secret meetings.

Location:
- Nová Dedinka 1062, Slovakia 900 29
Topics:
- religious activism
- samizdat and tamizdat
Date of founding:
- 1970
Featured items:
- Voice recordings

Marian Kropyvnytskyi Personal Archive

The Kropyvnytskyi archive is a private collection of documents related to the activities of the Kyiv Art Institute in the second half of the 1920s. The institute's rector, Ivan Vrona, appointed Marian Kropyvnytskyi an assistant for the research office of the experimental visual arts, headed by the avant-garde painter Kazimir Malevich. Kropyvnytskyi served as Malevich's personal assistant in 1928-1930. The archive contains minutes of meetings, Kropyvnytskyi's notes of Malevich's lectures, and copies of Malevich's unpublished lectures. Since the archive of the Institute was destroyed, the Kropyvnytskyi collection is probably the only collection that contains documents about the Institute's history in the interwar period.

Location:
- Kyiv Khreschatyk Street 15, Ukraine
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Date of founding:
- 1927
Featured items:
- Kazimir Malevich's article on the Faculty of Formal-Technical Disciplines at the Kyiv Art Institute
- Kazimir Malevich's article on the New Academy of Arts