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	HU OSA 301-0-5
Fonds 301:	Records of Index on Censorship
Series 5:	Publications

Date(s) 1959-1997 (1983-1997)

Extent and medium 22 Archival boxes, 3 linear meters

Scope and content

This series contains publications and periodicals, including an incomplete set of Index on Censorship, ranging from the very first issue up to the early nineties, a few newsletters, bulletins and annual reports of human rights organizations and a variety of newspapers and magazines from all over the world.

The most comprehensive section of this series consists of periodicals - some of them samizdat publications - on and from Central and Eastern Europe, dealing mainly with the dissident movement in the countries from behind the Iron Curtain. Some of them, such as Cross Currents, KOSMAS, or Uncensored Poland: News Bulletin, regularly published banned literature, interviews with dissidents, and studies on the opposition movements.

Accruals Expected

Conditions governing access Open for research

Language/scripts of material English

Finding aids

• 22 containers
• Related OSA Reference Information Paper available. (RIP 9: Human rights)

Related units of description

• HU OSA 318-0-7 Publications, 1984-2002

Note

Keywords: dissidents, central and eastern europe, samizdat, index on censorship, culture, communism

Date(s) of descriptions

Processed in November 2003 and described in June 2004 by Csaba Szilagyi
Online version updated 6 January 2012