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Kuigi Rahvusarhiiv alustas tegevust 1. jaanuaril 1999. aastal oli riiklik arhiivisüsteem loodud juba Eesti Vabariigi algusaastatel. 3. märtsil 1920. aastal tegi arhiivikomisjon ettepaneku rajada Tartusse tegevuse lõpetanud oluliste institutsioonide dokumentide säilitamiseks Riigi Keskarhiiv ning jätkuvalt tegutsevate asutuste dokumentide hoidmiseks Tallinnasse Riigiarhiiv. Nõukogude okupatsiooni ajal jäid arhiivid alles kuid nad struktureeriti ümber ning neid valitseti Moskvast. Eesti taasiseseisvumise järel taastati 1990ndatel arhiivide endine struktuur. Vastavalt 1998. aastal vastu võetud arhiiviseadusele alustas Rahvusarhiiv tegutsemist 1. jaanuaril 1999. aastal. Arhiivi struktuur koosnes Ajalooarhiivist Tartus, Riigiarhiivist ning Filmiarhiivist Tallinnas ning 15 maaarhiivist. Seoses Rahvusarhiivi uue hoone valmimisega muutus 2017. aastast struktuur ning praegu koosneb Rahvsarhiiv Tartus, Tallinnas, Rakveres ja Valgas asuvatest üksustest.

Rahvusarhiiv on teinud suuri edusamme digiteerimisel, praeguseks on Rahvusarhiivi infosüsteemis Saaga vabalt saadaval väga suur hulk digiteeritud dokumente.

Tartu ülikool rajati 1632. aastal. Põhjasõja ajal suleti ülikooli raamatukogu. 1802. aastal taasavati ülikool. Uus raamatukogu hakkas tegutsema Tartu toomkiriku varemetes. Raamatukogu eesmärgiks oli koguda teaduskirjandust, et aidata uurijatel tegeleda teadustööga. Sõdade vahelisel perioodil oli Tartu ülikooli raamatukogu Eesti kõige suurem ja olulisem raamatukogu. Raamatukogu hakkas koguma sundeksemplare kõikidelt Eesti kirjastustelt. Nõukogude ajal hakkas raamatukogu uurima rariteetseid raamatuid ja kunstikogu. 1980. aastatel kolis raamatukogu uude hoonesse, kus ta tegutseb tänaseni. 1990. aastatest alates on raamatukogus toimunud kiire infotehnoloogiline areng. Raamatukogu on muutnud enda fookuse võrgus olevatele materjalidele.

2016. aasta lõpus oli raamatukogul umbes 55 000 registreeritud kasutajat, kellest umbes 40% ei olnud otseselt seotud Tartu ülikooliga. 67% lugejatest olid tudengid, 6% ülikooli töötajad (professorid, doktorandid jne) ning 27% „muu”.

The 1956 Research Institute was established at the initiative of twenty intellectuals from both Hungary and abroad on 17 June 1989, one day after Imre Nagy and his fellow martyrs of the 1956 Revolution were solemnly reburied. The mission of the new institute was to research and document the history of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.

With regards to its antecedents, two organizations merit mention: the Imre Nagy Institute in Brussels, which was created soon after the revolution, and the Oral History Archives, which was founded in 1985 with the support of the Soros Foundation Hungary and which collects oral history historical sources of the twentieth century. The interview collection of the Oral History Archives remains the scientific and documentary basis of the Institute.

The 1956 Research Institute started its operations legally as a private foundation with public interest in 1991. In 1995, this was changed by a government decree and the Institute acquire the favored legal status of a public foundation. Since 1992, the Institute has published yearbooks and a number of books and films, CD-ROMs, and online contents on its homepage (www.rev.hu). Its research staff has been actively taking part in scientific events in Hungary and abroad by organizing workshops and conferences regularly on its own.

The A-Cyclists group was one of the first anarchists' organisations in Warsaw in the 1980s. The group was established around the year 1987-1988 by the teenagers from Warsaw's secondary schools, especially the one for the so-called "difficult youth". The A-Cyclists collective was relatively small, from a few to about dozen of members, but tens or even hundreds of participants gathered in the actions organised by the group. Members of the A-Cyclists group had different experiences, from engagement into hard-core punk music and alternative culture to participation in the demonstrations organised by the "Solidarity" union, Freedom and Peace movement, and Polish Socialist Party-Democratic Revolution fraction. Some of them for the first time committed to the political activism.

The A-Cyclists group has never been institutionalised nor has their archive collected by the group since 1988. The collective chose to be an unofficial, informal cooperation of young anarchists. They organised political demonstrations and street happenings as well as created alternative art, theatre, and poetry. Their regular meeting and discussions took place at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Warsaw. In 1989 A-Cyclists participated in the occupation of the University of Warsaw set up as an element of the strive to the legitimization of the Independent Students' Union. The anarchists several times fought in the street battles against police forces, they also combated the skinheads and neo-Nazis.

The climax of A-Cyclists' activities took place on years 1989-1991 when the dramatic and unprecedented events of transition from the state socialism toward capitalist liberal democracy gave young people the hope that there is a possibility for the revolution against both socialism and capitalism. After 1991 majority of the group got involved in the Anarchist Federation while the others resigned from the political activism at all.