THE HUNGARIAN AUTONOMOUS REGION - SOCIAL AND POLITICAL EVOLUTION (1952 -1968)
THE HUNGARIAN AUTONOMOUS REGION - SOCIAL AND POLITICAL EVOLUTION (1952 -1968)

Summary/Abstract: By eliminating the Monarchy and proclaiming the Republic, the communists succeeded to conquer the whole political scene. Ever since 1951 the Soviet Union introduced in the political calendar of the Government from Bucharest, the creation of the Hungarian Autonomous Region. The Hungarian autonomous region was established in the center of Transylvania, being a region with a cultural and economical autonomy, bigger than the political one. The newly established region included nine districts, with the administrative center in Targu Mures. The new administrative division had negative consequences for the Romanians, as it imposed knowing the Hungarian language. The cultural and administrative autonomy allowed the Hungarian community to develop their own culture, expanding the education in the Hungarian language. The number of schools where the education was taught in the Hungarian language (primary, secondary and high schools) increased. The Administrative and cultural rights, obtained by the Hungarian ethnics, aroused complaints among the Romanian population, who considered themselves marginalized. The Hungarian Autonomous region had the same political control, the same censorship of the press and word, the same control over the rights and freedom of the citizens, the same confinement of the right to free speech. everything was decided at central level and applied in the region. After the revolutionary events in Hungary, in 1956, the control of the Romanian authorities tightened in the region and as a result in the schools where before the teaching was only taught in Hungarian, a Romanian department was created. After 1956, a reorganization of the Hungarian Autonomous region takes place, and a new name is adopted, that of the Hungarian Mures -Autonomous Region. After the administrative reform from December 1960, the Hungarian population from The Hungarian Autonomous Region decreased from 77% to 62% . Through the Law no.2 from February 16th, 1968, an administrative reorganization took place and the Hungarian Autonomous Region was abolished.

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