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“Rudi Supek Night” is an informal gathering of sociologists organised by the Discrepancy Student Sociology Club at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb. Discrepancy is one of the most active student organisations at the University of Zagreb. “Rudi Supek Night” is held annually in honour of Rudi Supek, the founder of the Faculty’s Sociology Department. Although it is a freshmen party for sociology students, this event, which is full of dancing and music, is open to all visitors. The concert regularly offers a broad repertoire of both popular and lesser known bands which have or have had sociology students as members. It is a concert of various music genres that alternate throughout the evening, open to everyone, regardless of subculture or musical taste. Each year, Discrepancy announces the concert with a distinct poster featuring a picture of Rudi Supek on it. By naming the event after Supek, students show how popular Supek was among his students as a sociologist, professor and non-conformist intellectual.

Keston has 69 anti-religious and political propaganda posters, though it remains unknown how the Keston Institute acquired them. Archivist Larisa Seago deduces that they likely came from different sources over time. The poster featured here was created by V. Zharinov in 1977, as part of the set “Razum protiv religii” (or “Together Against Religion”). 40,000 copies were printed. A. Karasev and S. Rezin were the authors of the rhyme used in the image: “Honest people’s sacred duty is to save children from the church’s darkness.” This poster is a reminder of the Soviet state’s foundational atheism and efforts well into the 1970s to dissuade and discourage the life and work of faith communities throughout the USSR.

This is a detailed analysis made within the Ideological Commission, based on a study of the state of the social sciences developed by the Council on Scientific Research of the People's Republic of Croatia (PRC) and the results of information provided by certain groups of scholars or institutions. It is an analysis of previous scholarly research in certain social sciences and humanities and also work programs for the subsequent five-year period (1961-1965). The analysis encompasses economics, law, philosophy, sociology, pedagogy, psychology, philology, history and art history. In the analysis of each of these fields, an overview of institutions dealing with this discipline, its role in society, personnel issues, scholarly production, programs and plans for future work with critical reviews and suggestions for further work are presented. For example, in the field of historical science, a criticism was that the establishment of the Institute for the History of the Labour Movement of Croatia (IHLMC) was only then in preparation, and it was noted that these issues were artificially separated from the organic whole of more recent national history, for which there was no Institute, so that one needed to be established.

The document illustrates the considerable role of the Ideological Commission in guiding, among other areas, scholarly research in Croatia at that time. The work programs attached to each of the fields clearly outline the ideologically designed course that needed to go and clearly defined topics to be studied.

By 1995, the document was, along with the other records of socio-political organisations, a part of the Archive of the Institute of History of the Labour Movement of Croatia/Institute of Contemporary History. That year, in July, it was handed over to the Croatian State Archives (CSA) where it is kept today. The documents are accessible for use without any restrictions.

Artūras Barysas-Baras‘ film Tie, kurie nežinote paklauskite tų, kurie žino (Those of you Who don't Know, Ask those Who do) is an avant-garde, 4.5-minute-long silent film made in 1975. The idea of the film could be interpreted as mystical: the action takes place on Cathedral Square, and the main hero points a finger to heaven.