Archival Projects

In cooperation with the History Teachers’ Association of Hungary, a competition was announced for history teachers entitled “Let’s Speak the Truth about ‘56” (‘56-ról hitelesen).

Hungarian-language textual and audiovisual records requested by members of the public from the former state security and secret police archives, and digitized and published by the Archivum.

Refugee DocsMap is a visual geographic catalog of 600+ recent documentary films on the global experience of forcibly displaced people, who had to leave their countries due to uprisings against tyranny and state sponsored violence, wars and ethnic or religious conflicts.

Text, photo, film, sound, and object photo chronicling the democratic transition in Hungary and presenting multiple perspectives on 1989.

The RFE/RL Library consisted of the two former book collections of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, which was consolidated in 1975 and amounted to approx. 120.000 volumes by the time the Radios were closed down.

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the trial by People's Jury of Imre Nagy and his fellow defendants, OSA Archivum, jointly with the 1956 Institute, organized an unusual, one-week-long event.

An experimental video documentation of and a research guide to the ongoing (re)archiving project of the Archivum’s Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian television broadcast collection from 1993–1999.

Run the framework of the International Samizdat [Research] Association (IS[R]A), the Samizdat Text Corpora aimed to bring together the various linguistic and regional bodies of samizdat to create a unified constellation of materials for scholarly research.

Between the two rounds of the 2002 parliamentary elections in Hungary, the Archivum publicly announced its intention to set up an archive of electronic campaign mail, inviting all recipients of email and cell phone text messages related to the parliamentary elections to forward them to designated accounts.

The project aimed at collecting source materials in Poland, Germany, Czech Republic and Hungary on the common experience of the citizens of the former Eastern Bloc from the period of the political thaw of 1956.

An electronic database containing 220,000 files and 1,000,000 digitized pages of the Communist International materials at the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History in Moscow.

Political propaganda via email played an unprecedented role in the 2002 parliamentary election campaign in Hungary. The Archivum decided to collect this new, and in Hungary yet unknown, instrument of political persuasion

The aim of this project was to digitize and make available online Hungarian Cold War educational films on ABC (atomic, biological, chemical) warfare. Supported by the ERSTE Foundation.

The Archivum has digitized from its library microfilm holdings over 10,000 declassified confidential or secret US State Department documents on the Soviet Union’s relations with the US and other countries in 1955–1959.

János Hübler and Nemere Kerezsi, two Ph. D. students at the Budapest Academy of Fine Arts (supervisor: György Jovánovics), have created this installation using two cubic meters of concrete and eighteen cubic meters of discarded books donated by Radio Free Europe.

SNAP (Soros Network Archival Portal) is a portal comprising a Digital Repository as well as Records Management Resources considered relevant to the ongoing work of the Soros Foundations Network.

The Parallel Archive (PA) was a personal workspace, a platform for research collaboration, and a digital archive.

Funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2023 research and innovating programme, ACTIVATE is implemented by a consortium of sixteen academic and non-academic partners including universities, archives, museums, and cultural institutions from seven different countries around Europe.

This project (2023-2026) aims at building a community platform for distribution of and research on archival data based on input from institutions hosting collections of samizdat/samvydav and dissident culture from the territory of the former USSR. Funded by the German Research Fund (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) and led by the Research Center ...