International scientific conference
“Anti-Communist Resistance in Central and Eastern Europe”
Bratislava, 14–16 November 2011
Nation’s Memory Institute (Slovakia) in collaboration with the Institute of National Remembrance, the Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution (Hungary) and the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (Czech Republic) on 14-16 November 2011 in Bratislava is hosting an international scientific conference “Anti-Communist Resistance in Central and Eastern Europe”.
The conference aims to present the latest results of historical (scientific) research in the area of anticommunist activities in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, which were ruled by communist regimes after the end of the World War II. The conference intends to bring the broadest context of civil actions against the totalitarian regime, including open rebellions against the communist government and emigration of people. It also analyzes various forms of persecutions against the opponents of communism. The presence of researchers from several countries of the former Soviet Bloc gives a comparative view on the common features as well as the particularities of development of the anti-communist resistance in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.
We encourage all persons interested to participate in the conference.
Additional information: Ivan Kresťanová, e-mail: krestanova@upn.gov.sk
PROGRAMME
Monday, 14 November 2011
12.30 – 13.00 Presentation of Participants
13.00 – 13.30 Opening Ceremony
1. Individuals and Small Groups in the Anti-Communist Resistance
13.30 – 13.45 PEŠEK, Jan (Slovakia, Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences): Ján Ševčík – Contemporaries of the Communist Regime and its Victim
13.45 – 14.00 VARINSKÝ, Vladimír (Slovakia, Matej Bel University): Anti-Communist Activities of Professor Kolakovič and the Illegal Group „Family“
14.00 – 14.15 BLAŽEK, Petr (Czech Republic, The Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes): Memorialist of the Anti-Communist Resistance in Czechoslovakia Miloslav Čapek
14.15 – 14.30 SIVOŠ, Jerguš – MORBACHER, Ľubomír (Slovakia, Nation’s Memory Institute): Resistance: Help the Vulnerable on their Way to Freedom
14.30 – 15.00 Discussion
15.00 – 15.15 Break
2. Activities of Illegal Groups and Dissidents in the Anti-Communist Resistance
I. part
15.15 – 15.30 SVYETLOV, Olexandr (Ukraine, Museum of Soviet Occupation): History and Role of the Ukraine's Dissent Movement 1956 – 1991
15.30 – 15.45 BORZA, Peter (Slovakia, University of Prešov): Illegal Activities of the Greek Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia in the Years 1951 – 1958
15.45 – 16.00 ENACHE, George (Romania, University of Galati): Levels and Forms of Anti-Communist Resistance in the Romanian Orthodox Church between 1945 – 1964
16.00 – 16.15 KATZOUNOV, Valeri (Bulgaria, Committee for Disclosing and Announcing Affiliation of Bulgarian Citizens to the State Security and the Intelligence Services of the Bulgarian National Army): Unknown Resistance. The Goryani Movement in Bulgaria
16.15 – 16.30 GLUŠKO, Elena (Russian Federation, Institute of Scientific Information in Humanities, Russian Academy of Sciences): „Czechs, we are your Brothers“. Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia after 1968 through the Eyes of Dissidents
16.30 – 16.45 MANDZÁK, Daniel Atanáz (Slovakia, Monastery of the Redemptorists): Greek Catholic Community Resistance against the Conclusions of so called Prešovský sobor in 1950
16.45 – 17.00 Break
II. part
17.00 – 17.15 BOZÓKI, András (Hungary, Central European University): The Dissident Intellectuals in Hungary in the 1980s
17.15 – 17.30 DUBOVSKÝ, Patrik (Slovakia, Nation’s Memory Institute): Movement for Civil Liberty in Slovakia
17.30 – 17.45 STEIN, Detlef: (Germany, East European Center Berlin): The Political Anti-Communist Opposition in East-Berlin 1985 – 1990. Together against the Regime?
17.45 – 18.00 AFTARUK, Aleksandra (Poland, Nikolaus Copernikus University in Toruň, University of Freiburg): „Solidarity’s“ Coordinating Office in Brussels in Fight against Polish Regime
18.00 – 18.15 SCUTARU, Beatrice (Romania, University of Angers, University of Iasi): The Romanian Anti-Communist Case Study: The League for Defence of Human Rights of Romania from France (1979 – 1989)
18.15 – 19.15 Discussion
The End of the First Day of the Conference
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
8.00 – 8.30 Presentation of Participants
3. Opposition Activities in an Official and Semi-official Organizations
I. part
8.30 – 8.45 LACATUSU, Dumitru (Romania, The Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile): The Anti-Communist Resistance Movement in Dobrogea
8.45 – 9.00 GRYZ, Ryszard (Poland, Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce): The Opposition in Poland versus Communist Camp Propaganda after the Jewish Massacre in Kielce (4th July 1946)
9.00 – 9.15 PAPP, István (Hungary, Historical Archives of the Hungarian State Security): The Unreliable Collaborator – The National Peasant Party and the Hungarian Political Police
9.15 – 9.30 MIREK, Agata (Poland, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin): Role of Nuns and their Participation in shaping Anti-Communist Resistance in Peoples Republic of Poland
9.30 – 9.45 VEBER, Václav (Czech Republic, The Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes): The 3rd Resistance in Czechoslovakia and Year 1956
9.45 – 10.00 Break
II. part
10.00 – 10.15 PIOTROWSKA, Anna G. (Poland, Jagiellonian University): Resistance in Polish Music after 1945
10.15 – 10.30 PLESKOT, Patrik (Poland, Institute of National Remembrance): Polish Students against Communism. The Underground Activity of the Independent Students Union (1982 – 1989)
10.30 – 10.45 PALKO, Olena (Ukraine, I. F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine): Ukrainian National Communist Opposition against Bolshevik’s Authoritarianism
10.45 – 11.00 RUZIKOWSKI, Tadeusz (Poland, Institut of National Remembrance): The Way to Freedom. Structures of the Underground „Solidarity“ in Warsaw during Martial Law (1981 – 1983). Origin, Activity and its Aftermath
11.00 – 11.15 WIERZBICKI, Marek (Poland, Institute of National Remembrance): The Youth Opposition Organizations in Poland in the Years 1980 – 1990
11.15 – 12.00 Discussion
12.00 – 13.30 Break
4. Open Insurrections and Rebellions against the Communist Regimes
I. part
13.30 – 13.45 GEROTA, Alexandra (Romania, University of Versailles – Saint Quentin): Armed Combat and other Forms of Anti-Communist Resistance in Romania, 1945 – 1962
13.45 – 14.00 JAKIR, Aleksandar (Croatia, University of Split): Anti-Communist Guerilla in Croatia 1945 – 1960
14.00 – 14.15 ŠMIGEĽ, Michal (Slovakia, Matej Bel University): Anti-Communist and Anti-Soviet Aspects Regarding to Activities of Ukrainian Insurgent Army in the Slovakia 1945 – 1947
14.15 – 14.30 MAREK, Pavel (Czech Republic, Palacký University): Anti-Communist Movement in Czech Lands in 1953
14.30 – 14.45 Break
II. part
14.45 – 15.00 KOPYS, Tadeusz (Poland, Jagiellonian University): Polish Events in June 1956 and Hungarian Revolution
15.00 – 15.15 MITROVITS, Miklós (Hungary, The Institut of Political History): 1956, 1968, 1980 – 1981: Three Uprisings against the Communist Regime. Similarities and Differences – a Comparative Study
15.15 – 15.30 TEBINKA, Jacek (Poland, University of Gdańsk): From “Liberatión” do “Détente”. Britain and Anti-Communist Movement in Soviet Satellites
15.30 – 16.15 Discussion
16.15 – 16.30 Break
5. The Forms of Judicial and Extrajudicial Persecutions of Anti-Communist Resistance Activists
16.30 – 16.45 CRISTOLOVEANU, Catalin (Romania, Indiana University): Conflict in the Countryside: Peasants, Resistance, and the Romanian Communist State during Collectivization, 1949 – 1953
16.45 – 17.00 MIKLOVIČ, Michal (Slovakia, Nation’s Memory Institute): Czechoslovak Intelligence Service and their Formations for the Fight against Emigration
17.00 – 17.15 BOTYÁNSZKI, Alexandra (Hungary, University of Szeged): 1956 as „lieu de mémoire“. The Hungarian State Power and the Opposition on the Anniversaries of the Revolution
17.15 – 17.30 MADDRELL, Paul (Great Britain, Aberystwyth University): Spying and Resistance: What the Stasi's Records Show about Western Spying in the German Democratic Republic, 1953 – 1989
17.30 – 17.45 NEDVĚDICKÝ, Kamil (Czech Republic, Ministry of Interior of Czech Republic): Legal and Non-legal Sanctions of the Participants of Anti-Communist Resistance in Czechoslovakia
17.45 – 18.30 Discussion
The End of the Second Day of the Conference
Wednesday, 16 November 2011
8.30 – 9.00 Presentation of the Participants
6. Political Emigration in the Battle against the Communist Regime
I. part
9.00 – 9.15 BOBÁK, Ján (Slovakia, Slovak Historical Institute of Matica Slovenská): Slovak Revolutionary Resistance and the Beginnings of Organized Anti-Communist Resistance Abroad in Years 1945 – 1946
9.15 – 9.30 CHOLÍNSKÝ, Jan (Czech Republic, The Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes): Correspondence and Cooperation between Czech and Slovak Exile Political Organizations who did not Recognize Council of Free Czechoslovakia
9.30 – 9.45 UHRÍK, Igor (USA, Independent Researcher): Struggle with the Communist (and Each Other). Czech and Slovak Exile 1948 – 1949
9.45 – 10.00 ZELENAY, Aristid (Švajčiarsko, Association of Slovaks in Switzerland): Swiss Slovaks and their Fight against Communist Dictatorship and for the Independent Slovakia
10.00 – 10.15 Break
II. part
10.15 – 10.30 HAZDRA, Zdeněk (Czech Republic, Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University): The Activities of the Czech Aristocracy in Exile after 1948 on the Example of Francis Prince Schwarzenberg (1913 – 1992)
10.30 – 10.45 KUBÍK, Petr (Czech Republic, Independent Researcher): Czech Anti-Communist and Anti-Beneš Exile after the Year 1945
10.45 – 11.00 JANSONS Leo (Latvia, University of Latvia): The Baltic Path in American Anti-Communism: The Policy in Action (1945 – 1963)
11.00 – 11.15 BARÁTH, Magdolna (Hungary, Historical Archives of the Hungarian State Security): Attempt to Create Unity of the Hungarian Political Emigration after the Revolution 1956
11.15 – 11.30 MOLNAR, Christopher (USA, Indiana University): The Radicalization of the Croatian Emigration in West Germany
11.30 – 12.15 Discussion
12.15 The End of the Conference