Problemele de bază şi periodizarea istoriei minorităţii maghiare din România
Basic Questions and Periodization of the History of the Hungarian Minority in Romania (1918-1989)

Summary/Abstract: The Hungarian minority in Romania was created by a political decision as aforced minority, and became a natural community in a century. Between the twoworld wars and after 1989 it can be described as an independent community. In thestate socialist era certain interests could have been pursued only through theHungarian policy of the party state, therefore, independent minority policy did notexist then. In the interwar period in Romania Hungarians were considered a nationalminority, which belonged to another nation and lived beside the majority people ofRomania. After 1944 they were considered as an ethnic group, which term did notimply them belonging to another nation, and nor did it refer to the demographic andpower asynchron (minority). According to the ethnopolitical concept at that time,ensuring the use of language was enough to preserve identity, and the Hungarianlanguage institutions had to serve the socialist transformation of society (HungarianPopular Union, Bolyai University, Hungarian Autonomous Territory, Council ofHungarian Workers). From the mid-1980s the category of ethnic group was replacedby the term of Hungarian speaking Romanian workers, which neglected theethnocultural differences in terms of socialist homogenization.

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