Original Name
OSA Archivum at Central European University (OSA Archiv)
Institution Type
Archives
Country
Hungary
Address
Arany Janos utca 32
H-1051 Budapest
Hungary
Telephone
+36 1 32732 50
Fax
+36 1 327 32 60
Email
archives@ceu.hu
Website
http://www.osa.ceu.hu
Description
The OSA Archivum is an archives and center for research and education. Its collections and activities are focused on the post-WWII period, chiefly covering the following topics: The Cold War History, The History of Post-Communist Countries, War Crimes and Human Rights Protection.
OSA Archivum is an open access facility committed to making research materials available to everyone, and especially to helping researchers from the former USSR and Central Europe, as well as western researchers working on specific regional topics. For this purpose OSA also offers research grants on a competitive basis.
Regular thematic exhibitions are an essential part of OSA's activities.
Soviet Samizdat Archives (originally compiled by the Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty Research Institute) contains materials of sociopolitical nature, covering three thematic fields: regional movements (Ukrainian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Crimean Tatar, Belarussian); Jewish emigration movement; Soviet human rights movement (in particular, there is a complete filing of the Soviet-time Samizdat periodical "Khronika tekushchikh sobytiy" [Chronicle of Current Events] published in 1968-1983, a digest of samizdat publications and events related to the dissent movement in the Soviet Union).
- Polish samizdat collection (compiled by the RFE/RL Research Institute) contains various Polish underground publications from 1976 to 1990.
- Hungarian samizdat collection (donated to OSA by Gabor Demszky, mayor of Budapest) contains series of famous Hungarian samizdat periodicals, manuscripts of books, and documents of political opposition.
ISRA Affiliation Level
founding member
