Varieties of Religious Dissent Ad-hoc Collection at CNSAS

The collection reflects the variety of religious dissent in communist Romania, and illustrates the underground religious practices and overt religious oppositional activities from the late 1940s until the 1980s. The collection comprises, on the one hand, documents and other cultural artefacts created by various religious denominations and confiscated by the Securitate and, on the other hand, documents created by the secret police. The latter illustrate the intense surveillance and the repressive policies of the secret police directed towards those religious activities that opposed the policies of the communist regime in Romania.

本数据集映照了共产主义罗马尼亚时期宗教异见的多样性，并描绘了自1940年代末至1980年代期间的地下宗教实践和公开的宗教反对活动。该数据集一方面包含由各种宗教派别创作并遭国家安全委员会没收的文件及其他文化遗物，另一方面则包含由秘密警察创作的文件。后者展现了针对那些反对罗马尼亚共产主义政权政策的宗教活动的严酷监控和镇压政策。