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Samizdat Collection at Petőfi Literary Museum (PLM)

Petőfi Literary Museum / Károlyi Palace (1958)
This collection is one of the most important samizdat collections in Hungary. The Museum's Library and Archive started systematically to collect samizdat materials in the 1980s. The materials were kept in closed stacks not available to the public until 1989. The Museum held one of the first exhibitions on samizdat in Hungary after the change of regimes.

Location

Languages

  • Hungarian

Provenance and cultural activities

Description of content

  • This collection contains samizdat journals, books, leaflets, and other types of printed materials written between 1981 and the change of regimes. Most of the books are from the AB Független underground publishing house.

Content

  • grey literature (regular archival documents such as brochures, bulletins, leaflets, reports, intelligence files, records, working papers, meeting minutes): 10-99
  • publications (books, newspapers, articles, press clippings): 10-99

Stakeholder(s) of the collection

Date of founding

  • 1981

Place of founding

  • Budapest, Károlyi utca 16, 1053 Magyarország
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Important events in the history of the collection

Access type

  • completely open to the public

Publications

  • Nagy, Csaba. A magyarországi szamizdat bibliográfiája: 1981-1989. Budapest: Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum, 1990.

Author(s) of this page

  • Scheibner, Tamás

References

Nagy, Csaba , interview by Scheibner, Tamás, November 24, 2016. COURAGE Registry Oral History Collection

Mészáros, Tibor , Bánki, Zsolt , interview by Scheibner, Tamás, December 08, 2016. COURAGE Registry Oral History Collection

Varga, Katalin , Mészáros, Tibor , Bánki, Zsolt , interview by Scheibner, Tamás, June 29, 2016. COURAGE Registry Oral History Collection

Hetényi, Zsuzsa , interview by Scheibner, Tamás, May 24, 2017. COURAGE Registry Oral History Collection

Last edited on: 2018-06-12 14:29:01