Call for Papers
Coming to the Surface or Going Underground? Art Practices, Actors, and Lifestyles in the Soviet Union of the 1950s-1970s
The Research Centre for East European Studies (FSO), Bremen, November 13-14, 2025
Coming to the Surface or Going Underground? Art Practices, Actors, and Lifestyles in the Soviet Union of the 1950s-1970s
The Research Centre for East European Studies (FSO), Bremen, November 13-14, 2025
Summerschool European Network Remembrance and Solidarity
25.-26. August 2025 (online), 1.-10. September 2025
Bremen und Paris; Prag und Paris
25.-26. August 2025 (online), 1.-10. September 2025
Bremen und Paris; Prag und Paris
Community Space "Dissent and Samizdat in the Soviet Union"
Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
In cooperation with Memorial Organization, Blinken Open Society Archives (Budapest) and Andrey Sakharov Research Center for Democratic Development (Kaunas)
Project period: 2023 - 2026
The Research Centre for East European Studies together with several partner archives like the digital archive of the human rights organization Memorial is designing a joint community space on the history of dissent and samizdat in the former Soviet Union.
The virtual platform will unite and bring together information and metadata about physically separated but semantically connected archival holdings on the history of Soviet dissent: different types and genres of documents, scattered in personal collections of soviet dissenters, as well as samizdat collections. Users of the portal will be able to search the full range of archival materials owned by different institutions through one meta-catalogue.
In addition to the meta-search engine, the platform will provide further services for researchers, such as pooling information, publicizing archive holdings, providing expertise and much more.
The cooperation of the partner archives serves to bundle expertise, exchange know-how, coordinate work processes and pass on best-practice procedures in the field of collecting, preserving, indexing and researching dissent and samizdat.
The project is the second phase of Discuss Data, a DFG-funded project of the FSO Bremen and the State and University Library Göttingen.
Project team:
Contact person for the portal & community space: tba
Technical development: Felix Herrmann
Academic support: Dr. Manuela Putz
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