Peep Ilmet is an Estonian writer, translator and author of lyrics. He studied history at the University of Tartu, but never graduated. He later worked as a book restorer. Since 1985, he has been a freelance writer. His first official collection of poems was published in 1980. Before that, he published poetry in manuscript magazines.

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Ilse, Andreas

During his youth, Andreas Ilse attended summer camps offered by the „Action Reconciliation Service for Peace“ (Aktion Sühnezeichen). From a young age, he was critical of the GDR. As his father was an active pastor, Andreas was not allowed to attain his secondary-school leaving qualification (Abitur). From his upbringing, strongly rooted in Christian and pacifist values, Andreas easily adopted a stance of complete anti-militarism, refusing to partake in compulsory military service. His resolve was only further strengthened after the Red Army invaded Afghanistan in December of 1979.

Ultimately, Ilse served in the East German National People’s Army as a so-called “Bausoldat” (construction soldier) and was active in working groups that provided information about military education in schools as well as seminars on conscientious objection to military service throughout the country. He also frequented environmental groups in Halle.

Andreas Ilse was permitted to attain his secondary school leaving qualifications. In 1986, he moved to Jena to begin his university studies. There, he found “Artists for others” (Künstler für Andere), a collective with the goal of supporting and providing those artists who did not conform to the official cultural policy of the government with opportunities to present their work. The Committee for the "Matthias Domaschk" Thuringian Archive of Contemporary History grew out of this network; Ilse became the president of this committee, completed his studies and now works as an advisor in the Federal Volunteers Service.

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Individual, Private

The current owner of the Marian Kropyvnytskyi papers wishes to remain anonymous.

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Isotamm, Jaan

Jaan Isotamm was an Estonian poet and writer. As a high school student he was arrested for belonging to the resistance movement. He was sent to a prison camp for seven years. After returning in 1963, he could not continue his studies. Until 1988, he could only get simple jobs (security guard, agrotechnical work, etc). However, he became a central figure in the resistance movement in Tartu. He communicated with a lot of students, and distributed banned literature. He obtained this literature from his fellow prisoners, and reproduced it on a typewriter. He published actively in samizdat almanacs. His first official book was published in 1971. In 1999, a selection of his earlier poems was published. From 1988 to 2003, he was editor of the magazine Akadeemia (Academy).

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Iveković, Rada

Croatian feminist, writer, philosopher and Indologist Rada Iveković was born in Zagreb in 1945. She graduated with a degree in Indology and English from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb in 1969 and obtained her Ph.D. at the University of Delhi in 1972. She worked at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb from 1975 to 1992, and at the New Sorbonne University in Paris since 1992.

Iveković was an active member of the Woman and Society Section and one of the most active Croatian feminists in the 1970s and 1980s. She became publicly engaged in feminism during the period of socialism, both in the media and through lectures and forums, and organized the first seminar of women's studies called "Women's Studies of Philosophy and Literature" at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb in the 1982/83 academic year.

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