Goga's Transylvania - An Internet Sourcebook for Transylvanian Modern History

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.

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-Siècle 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.

P.S. You comments, questions and discussions are more than welcome. The floor is open.

	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
	WEB Map of Timisoara/Temesvar WEB Map of Brasov/Kronstad WEB Map of Cluj/Klausenburg WEB Map of Sibiu/Hermannstadt 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
	See the panoramic view of Hermannstadt/Sibiiu
	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 academicã maghiarã "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. Spre prăpastie. Arad: Tribuna, 1911.
	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.
	Sever BOCU
	Valeriu BRANIŞTE
	Eugen BROTE
	Ion Luca CARAGIALE
	Ilarie CHENDI
	CIATO
	Roman CIOROGARIU
	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.

	WEB Habsburg H-Net
	WEB Oxford Austrian Studies Association
	WEB Die Österreichisch-Ungarischen Dokumente zum Kriegsausbruch


	WEB Transylvania Saxons
	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.
	WEB Transylvania info


	WEB The Austrian Constitution of 1867
	The law of nationalities of 1868
	WEB Alba-Iulia Resolution 1918 (the original and its text)


	The Romanian National program of 1881
	The Roumanian Programme of 1905
	The Slovak Programme of 1905

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.
	Replica's bibliography
	Seton Watson's bibliography