Samizdat from Hungary in the Vera & Donald Blinken Open Society Archives

The samizdat holdings in the Vera & Donald Blinken Open Society Archives is a unique collection of illegal publications of the Hungarian oppositional intellectual circles. Though censorship was milder in Hungary than it was in the other countries of the Eastern Bloc, it would not have been possible for these volumes to have been published in socialist Hungary without independent publishers in the secondary public sphere, or “islands of the free press.”

维拉与唐纳德·布林肯开放社会档案馆所藏的地下出版物藏品，乃匈牙利反对派知识界非法出版物的独特汇编。尽管与东欧其他国家的审查相比，匈牙利审查较为宽松，但若非次级公共领域中的独立出版商，或所谓“自由新闻的岛屿”，这些书籍在社会主义匈牙利是难以出版的。