Vajdasági/délvidéki magyarok nemzeti identitása 1920–1989-ig I.
Literature review of the national identity of hungarians in Vojvodina between 1920–1989. I.

Summary/Abstract: Our paper follows on the observation made by Ferenc Pataki who stated that national identity is a collective identity shaped by both political/citizenship-related and cultural elements. While these two elements are usually similar, the national identity of people from ethnic minorities differ along these two identities. Our analysis discusess the changes that happened during the hundred years since the Treaty of Trianion to these two elements of the national identity of the following three generations of Hungarians in Vojvodina: between the two World Wars, those who grew up during the communism and those who became adults after 1990. We conclude that the first generation retained their cultural-historical national identiy formed before Wold War I but they did not develop Hungarian or South Slavic national idenities. To replace the South Slavic identity they developed a regional identity to Vojvodina. The second generation, who were born and raised after 1945, developed Yugoslavian political/citizenship-related national identy through socialisation in a new political system and a regional identity to Vojvodina, which meant an alienation from Hungary. As a result of their shattered cultural-historical national identity, they started to assimilate, some of them lost their Hungarian cultural-historical identity and acquired a Serbian or Yugoslavian national identity instead. The national identity of the third generation who grew up after 1990 will be discussed in a second paper.

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