Reference Type: Book Section
Author: Răzvan, Florin Mihai
Year: 2010
Title: Dinamica electorală a candidaţilor minoritari din Bucovina la alegerile generale din România interbelică
Translated Title: [Electoral Dynamics of National Minority Candidates from Bucovina in the General Elections in the Interwar Romania]
Editor: Ciobanu, Vasile - Radu, Sorin
Book Title: Partide politice şi minorităţi naţionale din România în secolul XX
City: Sibiu
Publisher: Editura Techno Media
Pages: 77-103.
Language: Romanian
Keywords: Ukrainian minority, polish minority, elites, politics, minority organizations, diplomacy, war,
Abstract(EN): Our main objective is to analyse the power of national minority elites from Bukovina (German, Jewish, Ukrainian, Polish) to adapt to the political life of Greater Romania and the particularities of Romanian Interwar democracy. All the national minority candidates who ran for the Parliamentary elections between 1919 and 1937, for the Deputies Chamber and the Senate, in the Bucovinian constituencies, were introduced in a database which contains the name of the politician, the constituency, the political party he represented, the place on the list of candidates, the profession, the nationality, the age, if he was elected or not. We found the data sources such as: archives, correspondence, memoirs, local and central newspapers, annuals, biographies, encyclopedias, biographical dictionnaries. First, we have presented the demographic distribuiton of Bucovina's population, the numeric importance of a certain minority in a certain county of the region, corressponding to the census organized by the Romanian authorities in 1919 and 1930. We have described also the evolution of electoral legislation, insisting on the articles referring to Bukovina. After a short draft of political life of the province in the Austro-Hungarian period, we have analyzed the general elections. We have written about the relations between the minoritary parties (German Party, Jewish Party, National Ukrainian Party) and the „Romanian" parties, the selection of national minority candidates who were members of National-Peasent Party, National-Liberal Party, People's Party, the influence of peasant and agrarian parties, of extreme-right parties, of communist and socialist parties amongst the non-Romanian ethnics from Bucovina. Finally, we have demonstrated the importance of the electoral pacts with the Government. A different table illustrates the national minority deputies and senators.
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