The Gábor Demszky Personal Papers Are Available for Research

OSA completed the processing of the Gábor Demszky Personal Papers. The first part of the papers, containing one of the largest Hungarian samizdat collections (HU OSA 302-1 Samizdat Publications, 1973-1990) was donated to OSA as early as 1995 and made available since then. This included periodicals, small prints, pamphlets and books, documents on the democratic opposition, and materials and tools used for samizdat production.

CFP: Sites of Memory of Socialism and Communism in Europe

Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the history of socialism and communism still presents itself as one of the most polarizing and controversial themes in Europe's culture of memory. While some countries of the former Eastern Bloc utilise their socialist past in the formation of national identities, others tend to construct nostalgic memories of their lived experiences in socialist times.