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	HU OSA 300-30-15
Fonds 300:	Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute (RFE/RL RI)
Subfonds 30:	Czechoslovak Unit
Series 15:	Collection of Documents Relating to the Czechoslovak Opposition and Protest Movement

Date(s) 1972-1992

Extent and medium 35 Archival boxes, 4 linear meters

Scope and content

The heterogenous series consist of Free Press Agency daily press releases, Palach Press Agency periodical Uncensored Czechoslovakia, Internationale Gesselschaft fur Menschenrechte (IGFM) publication, East European Information Agency releases and covers the events of the immediate periods of pre and post-1989 Velvet Revolution, activities of Charter 77, political situation in Czechoslovakia, especially trials and sentences againts dissidents, demonstrations organized by the dissenters, statements of the Committee for Defense of unjustly prosecuted, arrests, persecution of Chartists, rallies, summary of samizdat publications.

System of arrangement

• Arranged by subjects and thereunder chronologically

Language/scripts of material

Czech, English, German, Slovak (principally Czech, Slovak, and English)

Finding aids

• 35 containers

Related units of description

• HU OSA 300-30-6 Old Code Subject Files V, 1946-1975
• HU OSA 300-30-7 Old Code Subject Files VI, 1976-1991
• HU OSA 300-30-8 Old Code Subject Card Files, 1951-1993
• HU OSA 300-120-5 Country Files (box. 60, Czechoslovakia: Ferment and Discontent, 1977 - 1980)
• Libri Prohibiti, Library of Prohibited Books, www.libpro.cts.cuni.cz

Date(s) of descriptions

Arranged by Erika Molnar; described by Pavol Salamon, 18 May 2000; revised by Pavol Salamon, 21 February 2005
Online version updated 21 January 2010