Birtokpolitika Észak-Erdélyben, 1940–1944
The Politics of Land in Northern Transylvania, 1940–1944

Summary/Abstract: The most fundamental change in the life of the Hungarian minority in Transylvania between the world wars was brought about by the Romanian land reform, which was not entirely devoid of nation-building efforts and eventually resulted in a dramatic shrinkage of land held by Hungarians in Transylvania. Similarly to other territories re-annexed from 1938 onwards, all previous land re-parcelling was reassessed in the Northern Transylvanian territories, which were annexed to Hungary after the ruling of the Second Vienna Decision. In Northern Transylvania the government chose to undertake this reassessment through civil procedure. On one hand, the point was to avoid the type of problems they experienced in northern Hungary. On the other hand, the extremely tense relationship with Romania was also a cause for concern, so measures suggesting broad state intervention were avoided. The study focuses on those byways of the diverse land policies in northern Transylvania, which the Hungarian administration sought to increase Hungarian land properties in Transylvania, or more precisely, in order to solve problems of state pre-emption, free market exchanges and population settlement.

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