“Autumn Reschedules”: The Student Movement in Cluj at the Start of the Academic Year 1923–1924
“Autumn Reschedules”: The Student Movement in Cluj at the Start of the Academic Year 1923–1924

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents the events that took place within the student community of Cluj in the autumn of 1923, when classes resumed after having been suspended for a whole academic year on account of the previous student unrest. Ion I. Moþa, the former president of the Petru Maior Center and a principal artisan of the unrest of the previous year, made successive attempts to revitalize the Center, closed down by the university, and reignite the protests, believing that the authorities had not kept their promises. That the leaders of the student movement had become increasingly radical is shown by the fact that, after consultations with Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Ion I. Moþa chose the path of assassination portrayed as self-sacrifice. The actual outcome was his arrest, after a student with a guilty conscience informed the authorities about the violent plans of the radical leaders.

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