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Tamás Csapody’s book entitled Theory and Practice. Catholic Conscience Objectors in Hungary between 1979 and 1989, was finished in 1993 but was published only in 2016. This volume includes the documents and analyses of his research, which was done using questionnaires. Csapody collected data on people who refused to do compulsory military service. This study was done between 1988 and 1991, and he repeated it in 2005. The 100 questions on the questionnaire concerned the details and processes related to the objectors’ behaviour and ideas.

The book provides easy access to the archival materials preserved in Alojzij Šuštar Collection, which are otherwise accessible only to a limited degree. It documents the struggle of Archbishop Šuštar to force the communist government to grant basic freedoms to Catholics, such as the right not to work on Christmas. It follows his activities in the process of Slovenia becoming an independent state. Therefore, the book is an unavoidable source for studying more recent Slovenian history.

The book Tartust Pariisi ja tagasi. Rännakutest, kunstist ja möödanikust (From Tartu to Paris and back. About journeys, art, and the past) consists of writings and poems by Indrek Hirv. Reproductions of works of art in his collection are also published in the book. It is even more important that the lives and fates of Hirv and his parents, as well as the lives of his parents’ friends, who were all artists, are described in this book. The book gives an insight into the views and spirit of a circle of artists who in one way or another opposed Soviet authority.

The current owner approached several institutions in Ukraine with these materials on several occasions. The first such meeting took place in 2003 (possibly 2013) at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (formerly the Kyiv Art Institute), which suggested that the owner leave the documents there for inspection. As no one showed interest in these materials, they remained unpublished. In November 2015, the owner once again approached researchers, this time to much greater effect. In April 2016, together with other materials about the Kyiv period of Malevich, the documents related to his teaching at the Kyiv Art Institute in 1928-1930 from the Kropyvnytskyi archive were published in the monograph "Kazimir Malevich: The Kyiv Period 1928-1930" by Rodovid publishing house in Kyiv, who bought a one-year copyright for the materials.