The Soviet Lithuanian Union of Writers was an influential cultural organisation made up of local writers, which was responsible for the spread of Soviet values and the promotion of Lithuanian ethno-particularism. The collection holds many documents, including transcripts of meetings and reports on writers' activities, which reflect the fact that some local writers were eager to support the Lithuanian cultural heritage, and promote the expansion of the boundaries of Modernism in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Vilnius O. Milašiaus gatvė 19, Lithuania 10102
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Vanda Zaborskaitė (1922-2010) was a professor of Lithuanian literature. In 1961, she was dismissed from her position as a lecturer at Vilnius University because of her 'nationalism'. After that, she found a position at the Lithuanian Institute of History. While she had other research topics at the institute, she also worked on Lithuanian literature, researching a very disapproved of topic at the time, the work and activities of the Lithuanian poet Jonas Mačiulis-Maironis (1862-1932). Maironis was a Catholic priest, who used strong patriotic and nationalist expression in his works, and the Soviet regime had to consider how to interpret his legacy, what parts of his work should be available to society, and what should be seen as religious.
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10308 Vilnius Antakalnio gatvė 6 , Lithuania
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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.
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Kyiv, 4 Hrushevskoho St., 01001, Ukraine
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Stus, Vasyl and Mykhailyna Kotsiubynska. Letters to Friends and Acquaintances, in Ukrainian, 1997. Book.
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Stus, Vasyl and Oksana Dvorko, Letters to Family, in Ukrainian, 1997. Book.
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Stus, Vasyl. "A star shone just for me this morning," Time of Creativity (Chas Tvorchosti), in Ukrainian, 1972. Poem.
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Stus, Vasyl. "How good it is that I’ve no fear of dying," Time of Creativity (Chas Tvorchosti), in Ukrainian, 1972. Poem. Trans. by Marco Carynnyk.
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Stus, Vasyl. Container of poetry smuggled out of Siberian hard labor camps, 1970s.
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Stus, Vasyl. Time of Creativity (Chas Tvorchosti), in Ukrainian, 1972. Manuscript.
The video and audio library of the Literary Archive of the Museum of Czech Literature consists of audio and video recordings of Czech poets and writers from 1932 until 2013; the collection also covers the literary scene in Czechoslovakia before 1989, including the activities of unofficial or “banned” writers and artists and their work in exile. One important part of the collection are recordings made between 1990 and 2013 as part of the Authentic project, which focused on recording videos and audios from various spheres of the Czech literary scene.
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Strahovské nádvoří 1, 118 38 Praha 1 - Hradčany, Czech Republic
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The Vilnius University Party Committee collection reflects the official policy and attitudes towards teachers, researchers and students. The university administration and Party Committee tried to control the educational process and the creative expression of scholars and students. On the other hand, documents from the collection help us to better understand the creative ambitions of Lithuanian researchers and even students, which did not always comply with the official ideology.
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Vilnius Gedimino prospektas 12, Lithuania 01103
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