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Glavlit (Lithuania) collection

The General Directorate for the Protection of State Secrets in the Press under the Council of Ministers of Soviet Lithuania (Glavlit) was the main censorship institution in Soviet Lithuania. The collection holds many documents illustrating the censorship of activities by cultural workers, and reflecting the boundaries for content, which was related to Modernism and the Lithuanian cultural heritage.

Location

  • Vilnius O. Milašiaus gatvė 21, Lithuania 10102
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Languages

  • Lithuanian
  • Russian

Name of collection

  • The Collection of General Directorate for the Protection of State Secrets in the Press under the Council of Ministers of Soviet Lithuania

Provenance and cultural activities

Description of content

Content

  • grey literature (regular archival documents such as brochures, bulletins, leaflets, reports, intelligence files, records, working papers, meeting minutes): 100-499

Topics

Founder(s)

Date of founding

  • 1944

Place of founding

  • Vilnius O. Milašiaus gatvė 21, Lithuania
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Creator(s) of content

Collector(s)

Important events in the history of the collection

Access type

  • completely open to the public

Author(s) of this page

  • Ivanauskas, Vilius

References

Agurkis, Vaidas , interview by Grybkauskas, Saulius, May 17, 2017. COURAGE Registry Oral History Collection

Last edited on: 2020-03-04 17:41:33