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Reference Type: Book Section
Author: Hausleitner, Mariana
Year: 2008
Title: Minorities and Sociopolitical Crises in Three Regional Societies: Bukovina, Bessarabia and Transylvania-Banat (1918–1944)
Translated Title: [Minorități și criza socio-politică în trei comunități regionale: Bucovina, Basarabia si Transilvania-Banat (1918-1944 / Kisebbségek és a társadalmi-politikai válság három régionțlis közösségben 1918-1944 között: Bukovina, Besszarábia és Erdély]
Editor: V.-T. Karády, Borbála Zsuzsanna
Book Title: Dimensiunea culturală a formării elitelor în Transilvania (1770-1950) / Cultural Dimensions of Elite Formation In Transylvania (1770–1950)
City: Cluj-Napoca
Publisher: Editura CRDE
Pages: 260-271
Language: English
Keywords: History, elite studies
Abstract: (ENG) The way in which the rights of minorities are secured by a given state says much about the political structures of that state. While the Romanian state of the interwar era possessed all the institutions suitable for a democracy, their operational competence was often limited. The regions bordering the Soviet Union were almost constantly under martial law. Because of this the constitutionally guaranteed rights of the population were not respected and especially members of ethnic minorities were subject to the arbitrariness of the military administration. The state security police even made distinctions in the application of censorship and the restriction on the right of assembly between the different minority groups: It viewed the Germans before 1933 as
loyal to the Romanian state, while the Hungarians and the Ukrainians were – collectively – accused of irredentism. In the case of the Jews, it was assumed that they were holding communist sympathies, even when in fact the state security police was dealing with social democrats or Zionists. I will use the descriptions from the documents of the security authorities as a starting point
and not as factual evidence – as it is often done by historians in Romania and the Republic of Moldova. I will complement these with an analysis of newspaper articles of the time and memoirs of members of ethnic minorities. In the case of the Bukovina I will make use of interviews with people who have been contemporary to the time under scrutiny.
URL: http://www.edrc.ro/docs/docs/elitform/216-270.pdf