Két nemzetépítés, egy állam – Románia száz éve
Two Nation-buildings, One State – The Last Century of Romania

Summary/Abstract: Romania is now celebrating 100 years since the formation of the modern Romanian state. This formation was, in fact, an until today uncleared unification of two nationbuilding processes. In Transylvania took place a Romanian nation building starting from the emergence of the Romanian intelligentsia of the Greek Catholic Church. It was a civil society based non-state national awakening, described by Miroslav Hroch for several Central European peoples. On other hand, in the Old Romanian Kingdom an other sort of nationalism was launched during the second half of 19th century. Its course can be described as a bureaucratic unification of several smaller territories or provinces, according to the example of the Italian unification in the same time, and described by Michael Hechter in his concept on state-formation nationalism with an stressful bureaucratic character. After 1920 the model of the bureaucratic unification was extended to the Great Romania and this process became determinative for the today character of the Romanian nationalism.

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