Documents of the Hungarian Democratic Forum (1987-1989)

The Hungarian Democratic Forum (HDF) was the first legal oppositional movement in socialist Hungary. The document material of the HDF, based on the private collection of Sándor Lezsák, is a unique source on cultural resistance during the late Kádár period and 1989.

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Adresa:
- Lakitelek Felsőalpár 3, Hungary 6065
Subiecte:
- literatură și critică literară
- mișcări naționale
Data fondării:
- 1991
Piese remarcabile:
- The Lakitelek Declaration, 1987. Archival document

Dominican Book Institute

The collection contains samizdat editions of religious literature and hymnals distributed in the underground church in the period between 1950 and 1989. It consists of the private collections of several anonymous monks and nuns of the secretly organized Dominican Order and School Sisters of St. Francis in several places of Slovakia. The library contains a large number of literature written in exile. The Dominican Book Institute helps communities to type and catalogue books but it does not own these books, their owners are the friaries of the province of the Dominican Order.

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Adresa:
- Jánošíkovská 34, Slovakia 900 42
Subiecte:
- activism religios
- samizdat și tamizdat
Data fondării:
- 1989
Piese remarcabile:
- Biblické ženy. Postavy Starej zmluvy, s.n., S.I., samizdat, 1970

Dominik Tatarka Collection at the Museum of Czech Literature

The collection of the Slovak writer and publicist Dominik Tatarka (1913–1989) contains unique correspondence, manuscripts and audio recordings illustrating life of this leading Czechoslovak writer, who had been critical to the communist regime since 1950s and became a “banned author” and dissident after 1968.

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Adresa:
- Strahovské nádvoří 1, 118 38 Praha 1 - Hradčany, Czech Republic
Subiecte:
Data fondării:
- 1979
Piese remarcabile:
- Tatarka, Dominik. Písačky. 1976–1978. Manuscript

Dual oppression

Miklós Duray is a Hungarian politician, writer, and teacher from Slovakia. He is the founder of the Coexistence political party and he is one of the signatories of Charta 77. Under the communist regime he was a well-known opposition politician. His political career started in 1965; for a short time he was a secretary in CSEMADOK, and later a head of the Hungarian Youth Organization (MISZ) and the head of the József Attila Youth Club in Bratislava. From 1978 he was a deputy chief of the Hungarian minority’s legal protection committee. In 1990 he established the Coexistence party and was head of the party until 1998. After 1998 he was an important member of the Party of the Hungarian Community.

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Adresa:
- 931 01 Šamorín Parková 4 , Slovakia
- Praha, Prague, Czech Republic
Subiecte:
- mișcare pentru drepturile omului
- mișcări ale minorităților
Piese remarcabile:
- Kettős elnyomásban