This database provides comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of political processes through the lens of revolutions, protests, resistance, and social movements. The collection includes videos, printed materials, and images from a variety of time periods, regions, and topics, including material on the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917, the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, and the Prague Spring.
Bibliographic references and research notes on index cards, with some accompanying notes, compiled by Professor Gordon Skilling for his book, Czecholslovakia's Interrupted Revolution, along with three boxes of other notes and references relating to Samizdat and dissent, Charter '77, Czechoslovak history and Czech-German relations.
These records were once part of Skilling's Czechoslovakia 1968 book and manuscript collection housed in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
The Klement Family papers consist of “birthday books”- albums created by Anna Pachner Klement for her grandson, Tomaš (Tomi), beginning at age two, when he was diagnosed with Sydenham’s chorea. Albums depict stories of a young boy and his adoring grandmother and the life of one Jewish family in Prague during the 1930s. Two years after Tomi’s birth, Adolf Hitler came to power, and the albums begin to record the changing attitude towards Jews in Czechoslovakia. The last album was written in 1940 and in it Mrs. Klement describes how they are forbidden to go to the theatre or the movies.
The T. & A. Baťa Shoe Company was founded in 1894 in Zlin, Moravia (now the Czech Republic), by siblings Tomáš, Antonin and Anne Baťa, descendants of a family of cobblers. What began as a small, family enterprise, expanded over the course of the century to over ninety countries to become the largest and, at times, the most successful shoe manufacturer and retailer in the world.
The material consists of the personal records of Professor Skilling and focuses primarily of Skilling’s academic work, and includes research notes and drafts of his doctoral thesis, The German-Czech National Conflict in Bohemia, 1779-1873, as well as notes and drafts supporting the revision of this thesis, which Skilling worked on for several years. There is also some correspondence with other scholars in the field of Eastern European studies, as well as publishers and editors.
Correspondence, research notes, manuscripts etc. of Prof. Gordon Skillling relating to his career as professor of political science. Includes files for Josef Pekar, Czech politics, etc.
The papers include correspondence between Jan Drabek, Josef Škvorecký, Zdena Salivarová, and Lumír Salivar, concerning 68 Publishers, Czech writers in exile, and Czech publishing and translating. The letters provide information regarding surreptitious funding being given by several organizations to Czech banned writers, and the outing of Czech cultural figures supporting Bolshevik organizations. References are also made to author and President Václav Havel, Nobel laureate Jaroslav Seifert, and filmmaker Miloš Forman.
The collection includes correspondence, poems, and short stories written by late 19th-century Czech writers, including members of the "Maj" group. Some of the writers represented are Josef Svatopluk Machar, Adolf Černy, Eliška Krásnohorská, František Táborský, and the composer Karel Weis.
A digitized, fully searchable and hyperlinked repository of visual testimonies by almost 52,000 survivors of genocidal wars. The vast majority of the testimonies in the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive are from Jewish survivors of the Holocaust (1939-1945), as well as other Holocaust witnesses, rescuers, and aid providers.