авангард, неоавангард
альтернативні способи життя і повсякденний опір
будні андеграунду
витончені мистецтва
відмовники з міркувань совісті
візуальне мистецтво
демократична опозиція
еміграція/заслання
етнічні рухи
жертви переслідувань за авторитарними / тоталітарними режимами
жіночий рух захист навколишнього середовища критична наука
література та літературна критика масова медіа мистецтво
мирні рухи
молодіжна культурa музика нагляд народна культура
наукова критика національні рухи
незалежна журналістика неофіційна освітня і видавнича діяльність партійні дисиденти
правозахисний рух
релігійна активність
рухи меншин
самвидав і тамвидав соціальні рухи
студентський рух
театр і виконавське мистецтво філософські / теоретичні рухи
фільм
цензура
артефакти
відеозаписи
голосові записи
графіка
картини
меблі
музичні записи
мультфільми та карикатури обладнання
одяг пам'ятники предмети народного мистецтва
публікації рукописи
скульптури сіра література
фотографії
фільм
юридична та/або фінансова документація
інший
This interview collection provides fascinating insights into the barely known everyday culture of grassroots Catholic communities under late socialism. Sociologist István Kamarás’ research collection represents an alternative lifestyle which never suited the official communist ideology.
The collection was established in the period from 2010 to 2016. It includes personal memories and materials of members of the Turkish minority of Bulgaria, who today live in different countries, most of them in Turkey. The collection sheds light on the life of ethnic Turks in Bulgaria and their responses to the contradictory politics, in long periods - discriminatory and assimilatory, of the socialist state.
The Roma Archive is the first digital collection devoted specifically to the Roma community in Bulgaria. Its aim is to show the history and memories of a people which have been invisible to the general Bulgarian public, and who are usually portrayed by the media in terms of deviant social and cultural behavior. The collection was created by the Balkan Society for Autobiography and Social Communication (BSASC). It includes numerous autobiographic interviews, rich visual materials, and a variety of other documents and images containing information on the Roma community in Bulgaria taken from Bulgarian State archives.
One of the main themes of the collection is the fate of the Roma minority under communism, during which it was subjected to frequent assimilation campaigns and when expressions of Roma culture was severely restricted. The collection aims to contribute to the democratization of historical knowledge, raising the profile of Bulgaria’s Roma community as well as increasing awareness within the community of the value of historical documents. At the same time, the ongoing process of building the collection itself contributes to overcoming ethnocentricity in Bulgaria’s education system. It strengthens intercultural dialogue and aids in the educational potential of Roma community members. The Roma Archive help makes the Roma more visible in Bulgarian society, education, and academia.
The collection reflects, on the one hand, the oppositional activity of the Romanian Greek Catholic (Uniate) Church towards the communist regime, and, on the other hand, the intense surveillance and harsh repression of this Church carried out by the repressive apparatus of the communist authorities. The Romanian Greek Catholic Church Ad-hoc Collection represents the most comprehensive collection of documents, which illustrates the multilayered resistance to dictatorship of one of the most repressed religious groups in communist Romania and its vivid underground religious activity from 1948 to 1989.