The petition from the 55 public figures about the preservation of the valley of the River Daugava as a result of the construction of the Pļaviņas HES.

The collection contains Vilnius University Party Committee documents (reports, protocols, resolutions) about the activities of four professors and scholars in the Department of Lithuanian Literature (1958-1959). Four teachers and researchers in the department, Vanda Zaborskaitė, Irena Kostkevičiūtė, Meilė Lukšienė and Aurelija Rabačiauskaitė, were accused by Party activists and the Party Committee of anti-Marxism, taking a 'bourgeois' approach to Lithuanian literature, and idealising Lithuanian history. They were severely criticised at Party Committee meetings. All four were eventually expelled from the university.

The protocol describes a meeting of the Central Committee Bureau in 1958 at which Juozas Bulavas was accused of bourgeois nationalism, dismissed from his post and expelled from the Party. While he was rector of Vilnius University, Bulavas decided to start more groups for Lithuanian students and close groups for Russian students. After this decision in 1958, he was accused of ignoring the ‘principle of proletariat internationalism’ and of ‘bourgeois nationalism’. He was fired from his job, and in 1959 he was expelled from the Communist Party. He worked in a scientific institute as a researcher. Bulavas was a loyal supporter of the communist regime, but he believed that de-Stalinisation created opportunities for policies more favourable to the Lithuanian nation and its culture. His story illustrates very well the fact that the de-Stalinisation policy had clear boundaries, and the Party leadership determined what was permissible and what was not.