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Centenáriumi Románia
Romanian Centenary

Nation Building and Chaos

Author(s): Zsolt Pászkán
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, History, Sociology, Recent History (1900 till today), Inter-Ethnic Relations, Ethnic Minorities Studies, Sociology of Politics, Politics and Identity
Published by: Nemzetpolitikai Kutatóintézet
Keywords: centenary;nation building process;Romania;Hungarian community;

Summary/Abstract: The Romanian nation building project that started in 1859 has been trying to unite and integrate political and social communities as well as to assimilate ethnic and religious groups that significantly differ from each other into a coherent “nation”. The project was not successful, and not only in the case of the Hungarian community, which remained the most significant national community after the German and Jewish communities had been sold under the Ceauşescu-era. Several indications suggest that deep cleavages remained even within the Romanian community, based on which one can question the success of the Romanian-Romanian “nation” building process. Romania aimed to mark 2018 as one of the major symbolic moments of the nation building proess; however, the developments of the centenary year so far rather corroborates failure.

  • Issue Year: 3/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 7-24
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Hungarian