An Internet Sourcebook for Transylvanian Modern History
|
(c) Răzvan Pârâianu
INTRODUCTION
Goga's Transylvania is an Internet Sourcebook
for Transylvanian modern history. This project tries to put on the map of
present scholarship Transylvania. In doing so I do not intend to insist on a
nostalgic past, on a militant regionalism or on a nationalistic stance. On the
contrary, I am committed to relativize all ideological discourses over
Transylvania.
First of all it is about the national narrative. It is not unknown that
Transylvania is a central element in Romanian historiography. This centrality
does not necessary enforce a bigger interest in history research but it is
about a discursive accent on the Nation-State building and state legitimacy.
My intention is to relax the ideological pressure over Transylvanian history
looking not only for continuities but for discontinuities as well, not only
for unity but for disunity as well in order to restore the dignity of
historical studies in front of political hegemony.
visitors until June 10, 2002 |
Today this site is on position in Romanian Top 100 Education section Thank you for your vote! |
It is worth mentioning here the Hungarian
nostalgias after a pre-Trianon Transylvania. These nostalgias are feeding a
certain part of Hungarian scholarship and an impressive number of Hungarian
web sites offering a refurbished account of Transylvanian history as a model
of whatever ideal of civilization and culture. Actually, both sides were/are
wrong and were/are negatively mirroring each other. It is not the aim of this
project to illustrate the way in which both camps constructed their
nationalistic narratives. For the Romanian case another Sourcebook will do
this examination while for the Hungarian case I expect my Hungarian friends do
a similar investigation.
Second, it is about recent attempts of constructing a kind of historical
tradition of Transylvanian regionalism and autonomy. These attempts came on
the same line with the reinvention of Central Europe, civil society and
Fin-de-Sičcle Culture. It was about an idyllic reconstruction offering a
impressive image about an amazingly tolerant society, an miraculously creative
culture and, why not about an astonishingly sad political destiny. Yet, this
construction had a subsidiary message against any possible competitors,
against the neighbours. Central Europe (intellectuals and politicians) managed
to get read of "Eastern Europe" or "South Eastern Europe" in its rush to join
European Union, now Transylvanians are trying to do the same with their
Moldavian and Wallachian fellows. My project tries to undermine this
inclination of using and misusing history for an ideological purpose.
Third, this project is not meant to praise or to condemn anyone but to trigger
a much honest approach to Transylvanian history. It will contain primary
sources that usually are not made explicit but are over- or misinterpreted.
Thereafter, there are a series of sources regarding the political and cultural
life of Romanians, which are disregarded as irrelevant by the Romanian
historiography and largely ignored by other scholars because of the language
impediment, because of difficulties of obtaining such sources, or - the last
but not least - because of the topics of historiographic discourse used. To
encourage comparative studies on Transylvania, I will do my best to offer as
many possible sources in other languages than Romanian for a broader scholar
audience.
It is worth mentioning the inspiring model of The Internet Sourcebook Project edited by Paul Halsall with whom I emulated in designing this project. See his The Internet History Sourcebook Project.
Răzvan Pârâianu
P.S. You comments, questions and discussions are more than welcome. The floor is open.
Please send your comments or read the remarks already made by others.
Work in progress
CONTENT |
|
|
WEB Alba-Iulia Resolution 1918 (the original and its text) |
|
|
|
WEB Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia vármegyéi Note: this site contains the maps of all districts of Hungarian Kingdom as they were in 1910. All maps are very detailed (1:3-400.000), large (600-1000kb) and very valuable. All of them are dating from 1910-1920 |
|
from Karl Baedeker, Austria-Hungary, Including Dalmatia and Bosnia: Handbook for Travellers Leipzig: K. Baedeker, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. Available on The Home of Jewish Genealogy |
|
|
|
WEB Perry-Castańeda Library Map Collection It is an impressive colection of historical maps from all over the world |
WEB Federation of East European Family History Societies - East European Map Room; contains as well: Russian Empire; German Empire W; German Empire W; Balkans; |
|
WEB Maps of Hungary Note: The Hungarian pre-Trianon nostalgias make the Hungarian nationalist sites useful resource for old maps while Romanian sites are quite indifferent about historical maps. |
|
|
|
Supplex Libellus Valahorum (1791/2) |
|
|
|
|
|
SLAVICI, Ioan. Die Rumänen in Ungarn, Sieberbürgen und der Bukowina. Vienna: 1881. |
|
SLAVICI, Ioan. |
|
"Memoriului" studenţilor universitari din România privitor la situaţia românilor din Transilvania şi Ungaria. Bucharest: 1891. |
|
Românii ungureşti şi naţiunea ungurească. Replica studenţilor români din Ungaria. [Reply of the Romanian students of Hungary]. Vinenna and Budapst: 1892. |
|
|
Cestiunea romana in Transilvania si Ungaria. Replica junimei academice române din Transilvania şi Ungaria la "Raspunsul" dat de junimea academică maghiară "Memoriului" studenţilor universitari din România [The Romanian Question in Transylvania and Hungary. Reply of the Romanian students from Transylvania and Hungary to the "Answer" Given by the Young Magyar Academics to the "Memorial" of the University Students from Romania]. Sibiu: Institutul Tipografic, 1892. and its abridged English version: The Romanian Question in Transylvania and Hungary. Reply of the Romanian students from Transylvania and Hungary to the "Answer" Given by the Young Magyar Academics to the "Memorial" of the University Students from Romania. Vienna, Buda-Pesth, Gratz, Cluj: [Publishing House] property of the Author, 1892 |
Memorandum |
|
Popovici, Aurel C. Cestiunea Naţionalităţilor şi modurile soluţionării sale în Ungaria. Sibiu: Institut Tipigrafic T. Liviu Albini, 1894. |
|
BROTE, Eugen. Un memoriu Politic. Cestiunea Română în Transilvania şi Ungaria [A Political Memo. The Romanian Question in Transylvania]. Bucharest: Voinţa Naţională, 1895. and its abridged English version: BROTE, Eugen. Die rumänishe Frage in Sieberbürgen und Ungarn. Berlin: 1895. |
|
IOAN RUSSU-SIRIANU, Românii din Statul Ungar [The Romanian from The Hungarian State]. [Arad]: [Publishing House] property of the Author, 1904. |
|
Scotus Viator (alias R. W. Seton-Watson), Racial Problems in Hungary. London: Archibald Constable & Co. LTD, 1908. |
|
Eugene Horváth, Transylvania and the history of the Rumanians; a reply to Professor R.W. Seton-Watson. Budapest : Printed by the Sárkány printing company ltd, 1935 |
|
SLAVICI, Ioan, Sbuciumările politice la Românii din Ungaria, (Bucharest: Minerva, 1911). |
|
Popovici, Aurel C. La question roumaine en Transylvanie et en Hongrie. Lausanne &c. 1918 |
Tribuna d-lui dr. I. Raţiu, |
|
Slavici, Ioan. Tribuna şi Tribuniştii. Orăştie: Minerva, 1896. |
|
Bogdan-Duică, G. Partea mea în criza Tribunei, Orăştie: Minerva, 1896. |
|
Slavici, Ioan. Sbuciumările politice la românii din Ungaria. Bucureşti: Minerva, 1910. |
|
Ciorogariu, Roman. Tribuna şi Tribuniştii. (1934) |
|
Ciorogariu, Roman. Zile trăite (?) |
|
|
Sever Bocu, Drumuri şi Răscruci [Roads and Crossroads]. Timişoara: 1939 |
|
Note: this index of personages is not exhaustive, of course, but it offers the opportunity to find various sources included in this Sourcebook listed according to their author, with a biographical note about him including some other available resources. |
|||
|
|||
Valeriu BRANIŞTE |
|||
Eugen BROTE |
|||
Ion Luca CARAGIALE |
|||
Ilarie CHENDI |
|||
CIATO |
|||
|
|||
Partenie COSMA |
|||
Eugen GOGA |
|||
Octavian GOGA |
|||
Vasile GOLDIŞ |
|||
Iuliu MANIU |
|||
Valer MOLDOVAN |
|||
Aurel C. POPOVICI |
|||
Ioan RUSSU-ŞIRIANU |
|||
Ioan Slavici |
|||
Octavian TĂSLĂUANU |
|||
Alexandru VAIDA-VOEVOD |
|||
IOAN RUSSU-SIRIANU, Românii din Statul Ungar [The Romanian from The Hungarian State]. [Arad]: [Publishing House] property of the Author, 1904. |
|
|
The official statistic of Hungary for 1900 From A magyar szent korona országainak 1900 évi nepszamlalasa. Elso rész. A nepessej heirasa kozsegenkint. Budapest 1902. |
|
The official statistic of Hungary for 1910 From A magyar szent korona országainak 1910. Magyar statistikai közlemények Új sorozat. 42 köttet.Budapest: 1912. |
|
Note: — It is too early for this project to offer a comprehensive bibliography, therefore, at the moment, here will be listed the bibliographical sections of various works included in this Sourcebook. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
WEB Habsburg H-Net |
|
WEB Die Österreichisch-Ungarischen Dokumente zum Kriegsausbruch |
|
WEB A Short History of Austria-Hungary and Poland (London: The Encyclopedia Britannica Company, Ltd., 1914.) |
|
WEB TransylvaniaNet Note: It is a quite documented and illustrated site of Hungarian nationalists. Besides some useful sources there are many texts regarding the present mood of Hungarian pre-Trianon nostalgias. |
|
WEB Theodoru Radu. Urmasii lui Attila. (1999) Note: R. Theodoru is one of the most radical nationalists of present Romania. See Spatiul Mio(c)ritic Sourcebook for further detailes. |
|