Hungary and Romania Beyond National Narratives

Anders E. B. Blomqvist is a doctoral student at the Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS) at Södertörn University. His research interests include the historiography and modern social and economic history of East-Central Europe, with a particular focus on Hungarian, Romanian and Transylvanian economic nationalism.Constantin Iordachi is Associate Professor of History at Central European University, Budapest, and co-director of the Pasts Inc. Center for Historical Studies. His research and teaching focuses on comparative approaches to historical research, totalitarianism and mass politics, and nationalism and citizenship in Central and South-East Europe. Balázs Trencsényi is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Central European University, Budapest, and co-director of the Pasts Inc. Center for Historical Studies. His main field of interest is the history of political thought in East-Central Europe.

• Contents: Anders E. B. Blomqvist/Constantin Iordachi/Balázs Trencsényi: Introduction – History Writing on Hungary and Romania: Beyond National Narratives? – Sorin Mitu: Hungarians and Romanians: How Were Two Images of Hostility Born? – Judit Pál: ‘The Struggle of Colours’: Flags as National Symbols in Transylvania in 1848 – Keith Hitchins: Accommodation or Separation: Notes on the Romanians and Hungarians of Transylvania, 1867-1940 – Anders E. B. Blomqvist: Entanglements of Economic Nationalizing in the Ethnic Borderland of Transylvania, 1867-1940 – Barna Ábrahám: Modernization and Ethnicity: Slovaks and Transylvanian Romanians in the Dualist Period – Gábor Egry: A Crossroad of Parallels: Regionalism and Nation-Building in Transylvania in the First Half of the Twentieth Century – Tom Kowol: Thoughts on the Social Dimension of Romanian-Saxon Political Relations in the Early Twentieth Century – Marius Turda: Imagined Geographies of Race: Hungary and Romania, 1900-1940 – Zoltán Pálfy: Nationhood Reasserted: Transylvanian Educated Elites before and after the 1918 Change of Sovereignty – Lucian Nastasă: The Dilemmas of a Hungarian University in Cluj – Eric Beckett Weaver: ‘Truly Devilish Material’: Hungary’s Entanglement with History and the League of Nations – Ottmar Traşcă: Romanian-Hungarian Relations from the Soviet Ultimatum until the Second Vienna Arbitration (June-August 1940) – Holly Case: Between States: A Journey from Social to Transnational History – Katalin Miklóssy: The Helsinki Process from Small States’ Perspective: Cold War Strategies of Hungary and Romania in Comparison – Balázs Trencsényi: Afterlife or Reinvention? ‘National Essentialism’ in Romania and Hungary after 1945 – Martin Mevius: Defending ‘Historical and Political Interests’: Romanian-Hungarian Historical Disputes and the History of Transylvania – Csaba Zahorán: Rival National Narratives: A Comparative Analysis of Secondary School History Primers from Romania and Hungary – Levente Salat: A Rapprochement without Reconciliation: Romanian-Hungarian Relations in the Post-Communist Era – Michael Shafir: Reconciliation at the Wrong End – Constantin Iordachi: From Disentanglement to Interdependence: State Citizenship in Romania and Hungary, 1945-2012.

«This work is a critical contribution in attempting to move forward discussions about Romanian and Hungarian history. It is a vital starting point for anyone interested in the region. Moreover, the breadth of contributions means that its value stretches beyond the regional focus to entangled histories throughout the world.»(Daniel Brett, Spiegelungen. Zeitschrift für deutsche Kultur und Geschichte Südosteuropas 2/2017)