The subject of the status of Hungarians in Greater Romania is one that teems with controversy. From the outset, two, even three different historiographical avenues of interpretation formed themselves to suit the argumentation of the varying political camps. This essay aims to shed more light on the condition of the Hungarian minority in interwar Romania, which would in turn yield a more realistic picture of the state of affairs in Greater...

Imperial loyalty or nationalism? The birth of modern Romanian national consciousness can be traced back to the late 18th century Transylvania, with the appearance of the Scoala Ardeleana generation (Petru Maior, Gheorghe Sincai and others). Nascent proto-nationalism originated in this, at the time most developed Romanian-inhabited area(1) . From the outset, it was bound up with the elements of another system of ideas, which it needed as a...

Ever since he embarked on his 2004 presidential campaign, the then would-be president of Romania manifested a peculiarly well-tuned proclivity toward the mastery of symbolic politics. He adeptly manipulated his past as a ship captain, promising the citizenry he would “captain” them through the stormclouds of corruption and lawlessness. This trend of making use of highly symbolic acts and images in order to transmit a political message...

In the wake of the crisis of the Annales’ School, and the epistemological revolution it promoted, a debate about the validity of methodology was sparked. Themselves critics of the hermeneutical study of texts, the purveyors of the Nouvelle Histoire came under heavy fire. The accuracy of the almost-manifest materialistic- structure oriented history was challenged on multiple levels. Aside from its impersonal stance, many historians...

The 12th number of the 2005 issue of the Revue Europeenne d’Histoire saw the crystallization of a new historiographical undercurrent: the history of transfers. The entire tome was dedicated to this novel way of looking at historical research and indeed, history. It is safe to say that this number of the Revue was meant to serve as a promoter and in some ways, a manifesto to the merits of studying historical transference. The efforts...