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Endre Rozsda

Prints of Remembrance,
Drawings by Endre Rozsda,
Interviews with 1956 Refugees
Exhibition catalogue, October 2006. PDF

Setting the Record Straight:
Role of Radio Free Europe in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
A Ross Johnson, September 2006. HTML / RTF

An Appendage to the History of Democracies in Transition:
A Preliminary Appraisal of the Records of Soros Foundation Hungary
Gabriella Ivacs, 2005. HTML / RTF


Article appears in the April issue of the Comma (ICA professional journal)
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Документация НПО, память для всех. Практическое пособие с ответами на 60 вопросов. PDF
English title: The Records of NGOs, Memory To Be Shared. A Practical Guide in 60 Questions.English title: The Records of NGOs, Memory To Be Shared. A Practical Guide in 60 Questions.

Open Society Archives has arranged for the translation into Russian. This manual is a practical guide, which draws the attention of officials, staff and volunteers of Non-Governmental organizations, NGOs, to the value of their records and offers advice on their management and preservation. Some of these records are of crucial importance for the history of both the organizations themselves and the societies concerned.

The Guide is an International Council on Archives (ICA) www.ica.org initiative. The original French version has been translated and adapted into several other languages, available at www.ica.org/biblio.php?pdocid=171.
To order your hard copy please contact OSA or ICA.

Just Noise
Istvan Rév, Open Society Archives, Budapest; 2004.
Just Noise, article based on this lecture given by professor Istvan Rév, the Director of Open Society Archives, at a conference on The Impact of Cold War Broadcasting was organized in October 2004 by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in the U.S. The role of Voice of America, BBC, Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty were presented and discussed by human rights activists, historians, former broadcasting officials and others. The conference was held in conjunction with the exhibit Voices of Hope: The Story of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty.
HTML | PDF

ARP, Archival Research Paper Series

The media in Bulgaria during communism and their transformation into democratic institutions
Bissera Zankova, SJD candidate, CEU Legal Studies Department.
This paper is based on the author's research done during a one-month internship in OSA, March 2003.
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Workers and Intellectuals in Communist and early post-Communist Romania
Adriana Mica
PhD Candidate (GSSR), Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, July 2005.
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On the Scope of Political Repression in the USSR under Stalin's Rule: 1921--1953
N.G. Okhotin, A.B. Roginsky
Memorial Society, Moscow
2003. 7 pages
In Russian HTML / RTF
In English HTML / RTF

Russia's "Trophy" Archives-Still Prisoners of World War II?
Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University and International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam; 2002
HTML | RTF in ZIP | RTF

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Open Society Archives
Leszek Pudlowski, Ivan Szekely, ed. 
Open Society Archives at Central European University, 1999. 206 pp.
As a part of its efforts to get closer and more visible to the public, the Open Society Archives (OSA) has published a book about itself. Not conceived by its authors, the staff archivists, as a conventional guide to the Archives, the book tells the story of OSA, its holdings and their pre-history, and gives an insight into its most interesting materials. The description is combined with practical information on research possibilities and public programs that OSA offers. In order to make it accessible to as many researchers as possible, the electronic version of the book is now also available.

 
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About RIP: Reference Information Papers (RIP), compiled by staff archivists, are thematic finding aids aiming to guide researchers to all the relevant archival materials at OSA that relate to a certain topic. RIPs are cross-sectional digests of OSA’s holdings and typically cover several countries. Issues of the RIP series are published irregularly, and always reflect the status quo of the holdings. The catalogue entries indicate the exact fonds reference, date span, approximate quantity, and, occasionally, medium of the records.

For CEU students: research opportunities

 

Reference Information Papers (RIP) Series
Open Society Archives at Central European University;
Series cover design and layout by Iván Székely.

New: The 1956 Reference Information Paper
Completely revised version compiled by OSA staff, October 2006

  1. Raoul Wallenberg HTML
    Prepared by Anna Svenson with the contribution of
    Katalin Dobo, Ivan Sz�kely, Sergey Glushakov,
    September 2005
  2. The Environment HTML | PDF
    Compiled by Dena Schoen, December 1995
    revised by Csaba Szilágyi et al., September 2001
  3. The Roma (Gypsies) HTML | PDF
    Compiled by Bosko Spasojevic, September 1996
    revised by Csaba Szilágyi et al., September 2001
  4. The 1956 Reference Information Paper
    Completely revised version compiled by OSA staff, October 2006: HTML
  5. Church and Religion HTML | PDF
    Compiled by Bosko Spasojevic, August 1997
    revised by Csaba Szilágyi et al., September 2001
  6. Nonconformist Artists in the USSR, 1956-1986 HTML | PDF
    Compiled by Olga Zaslavskaya and Bosko Spasojevic, September 1997
    revised by Csaba Szilágyi et al., September 2001
  7. The Prague Spring, 1968 HTML | PDF
    Compiled by Bosko Spasojevic, September 1998
    revised by Csaba Szilágyi et al., September 2001
  8. Forced Labor Camps Under Communism HTML | PDF
    Compiled by Olga Zaslavskaya and Bosko Spasojevic, April 1999
    revised by Csaba Szilágyi et al., September 2001
  9. Human Rights HTML | PDF
    Compiled by Csaba Szilágyi et al., August 2002
  10. Nuclear Energy and Its Applications HTML
    Prepared on the ocassion of the Atom exhibition organized by OSA on April 26 - June 11, 2006 on the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophe.
  11. Judaica Wallenbergiana Collection at OSA HTML
    Compiled by Pavol Salamon, July 2006

Access and Protection
Examples of Hungarian legislation and practice in the field of protection of personal data, disclosure of data of public interest, and access to records and archives.
Edited by Ivan Szekely; Committee on Archival Legal Matters of the International Council on Archives; Budapest 1998.
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