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Gediminas Ilgūnas žymus lietuvių žurnalistas, rašytojas, kraštotyrininkas ir keliautojas. Penkiasdešimtaisiais už anti-sovietinę veiklą bei ryšius su partizanais suimtas ir kalintas. Paleistas iš kalinimo vietų organizavo etnografines ekspedicijas, kurių metu rinko medžiagą apie reikšmingas tautos istorijai asmenybes. Kolekcijoje saugomi dokumentai susiję su Ilgūno veikla Sąjūdyje ir Aukščiausioje Taryboje; trumpi prisiminimai apie stalinistinį laikotarpį; medžiaga skirta Vinco Pietario biografijai. Kolekcija supažindina su sovietinio laikotarpio kultūros aktyvisto ambicijomis rinkti ir išsaugoti Lietuvos istorinį ir kultūrinį paveldą.

The video periodical Black Box was the first independent film production studio during the last years of communist rule in Hungary. It reported on demonstrations and civilian initiatives that the official media passed over in silence or reported on with disinformation. With its film reports, and portraits distributed in samizdat channels, at the beginning Black Box managed to create the largest film collection documenting the events of the transitional period and the change of political system both in Hungary and in other communist countries.

The collection includes the documents of the Danube Circle Association, which was a non-governmental organization in opposition to the government’s project to construct a River Barrage Dam near Nagymaros (Hungary) in the 1980s. The Danube Circle movement tried to prevent the construction of the dam with samizdats, public debates, and protests. The Circle was one of the new types of alternative movements, which expanded the base of the “traditional” intellectual opposition.