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	HU OSA 301-0-3
Fonds 301:	Records of Index on Censorship
Series 3:	Country Files

Date(s) 1957-1998

Extent and medium 289 Archival boxes, 36 linear meters

Scope and content

Materials in this series include press clippings, reports, media monitoring material, news agency releases, manuscripts, correspondence and publications.

The most voluminous series of this fonds deals largely with the censorship and general human rights situation in the respective countries. The state of the media, the various forms of censorship in arts, literature, media and education, as well as more general topics such as minority rights, immigration and religion are systematically covered and monitored.

Though all-encompassing and non-exclusive in its focus, Index seems to be, at least quantitativley, biased towards Europe and Central Asia: more than one third of the files deal with this region that by now includes all the former Soviet republics. The files on the Central and Eastern European dissent and opposition movements, especially those on banned arts, literature and thought, as well as some then unpublished manuscripts finely complement the huge samizdat collection of RFE/RL. Of major interest could be the complete media coverage (and some background information) relating to the publication of The Satanic Verses and the fatwa imposed on Salman Rushdie afterwards.

Accruals Expected

Language/scripts of material

Principally English, but also in the local languages of the regions covered

Finding aids

• Container list [4-1-1-3] {revise the container list; update the container list on the web as soon as the revision is completed; Csaba}
• Related OSA Reference Information Papers is available. (RIP 9: Human rights)

Related materials

• HU OSA 300-85 Samizdat Archives, 1956-1994
• HU OSA 302 Samizdat Publications of Gábor Demszky, 1973-1992
• HU OSA 318 Records of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF), 1979-2000
• HU OSA 341 Publications of Human Rights Watch, 1982-2000
• HU OSA 318-0-3 Country Files, 1988-1999
• HU OSA 318-0-5 Project Files, 1985-1996

Date(s) of descriptions

Processed by Andrea Farkas, November 2002 through May 2003; re-arranged and described by Csaba Szilagyi in September-November 2003
Online version updated 18 December 2008