Российский государственный архив научно-технической документации / The Russian State Archive for Scientific-technical Documentation

Author(s): Darina Volf (2018) – last update: 2018-04-19 The Российский государственный архив научно-технической документации – РГАНТД (Rossijskij gosudarstvennyj archiv naučno-techničeskoj dokumentacii – RGANTD) / The Russian State Archive for Scientific-technical Documentation holds materials on the history of science and technology, especially space activities, rockets, defense, scientific-technical complex etc. for the period from the 1930s to the […]

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Muzej Jugoslavije – Foto Arhiv / The Museum of Yugoslavia – Photo Archive

Author(s): Philipp Türmer (2018) – last update: 2018-04-19.   Today’s Museum of Yugoslavia was once named the Museum of Yugoslav History up until the end of 2016. The name was changed twenty years after it was established (1996) by merging and simultaneously dissoluting the following two institutions: the Memorial Center “Josip Broz Tito” and the […]

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Архив Российской Академии Наук – Москва / The Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences – Moscow

Author(s): Darina Volf (2018) – last update: 2018-04-19 The Архив Российской Академии Наук (Archiv Rossijskoj Akademii Nauk) / The Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), established in 1728, holds documents, photographs, cartographic material and scientific works from various fields in Russian history of science and history of humanities since the 16th century. The […]

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Hoover Institution Library & Archives at Stanford University

Author(s): Katalin Cseh-Varga (2016) – last update: 2018-04-19. Founded by Herbert Hoover in 1919, the Hoover Institution Library & Archives are dedicated to documenting war, revolution and peace in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. With nearly one million volumes and more than six thousand archival collections from 171 countries, Hoover supports a vibrant community of […]

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Squat Theatre Archives at UC Davis Library – Special Collections (Peter J. Shields Library)

Author(s): Katalin Cseh-Varga (2016) – last update: 2018-04-19. Squat Theatre began in 1969 as the Kassak Studio in Budapest, Hungary. Pressured by the Hungarian government because of its political and aesthetic radicalism, the group left Hungary in 1976. Calling itself Elephant Theatre, the troupe performed in western Europe for one year. Then, adopting the name […]

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Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives

Author(s): Katalin Cseh-Varga (2016), Arnošt Štanzel (2018) – last update: 2018-09-28. The Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives (OSA) at Central European University (CEU) actively collects, preserves, and makes openly accessible documents related to recent history and human rights. It offers one of the world’s largest repositories of Cold War, Radio Free Europe and […]

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Artpool Art Research Center

Author(s): Katalin Cseh-Varga (2016) – last update: 2018-04-19. The idea behind the Artpool project is to create an “ACTIVE ARCHIVE” built on specific artistic activities. This differs from traditional archival practices in that the “ACTIVE ARCHIVE” does not only collect material already existing ‘out there’, but it also generates the very material to be archived. […]

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Archives of the International Tracing Service

Author(s): Carolin Piorun (2018) – last update: 2018-04-19.   The Archives of the International Tracing Service (ITS) hold over 30 million documents with information on the fates of victims of Nazi persecution: incarceration, forced labour and post-war Allied assistance to Displaced Persons is documented here. Since 2013, the original collections are part of the UNESCO-“Memory of […]

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