The Trauma of the Trianon to the Hungarians. It Is a Real Suffering, but Isn't the Trauma Somehow Induced by Its Own Elites? Cover Image

TRAUMA TRIANONULUI LA MAGHIARI. ESTE O SUFERINȚĂ REALĂ, DAR TRAUMA NU ESTE CUMVA INDUSĂ DE CĂTRE PROPRIILE ELITE?
The Trauma of the Trianon to the Hungarians. It Is a Real Suffering, but Isn't the Trauma Somehow Induced by Its Own Elites?

Author(s): Matei BLĂNARU
Subject(s): Political history, Politics and society, Present Times (2010 - today), Politics of History/Memory
Published by: EDITURA INSTITUTULUI DE ȘTIINȚE POLITICE ȘI RELAȚII INTERNAȚIONALE ”Ion I. C. Brătianu”
Keywords: trauma; Trianon; narrative; instrument, elites; depression;

Summary/Abstract: We have all heard about the Trianon trauma, the Hungarian officials and government have lately been particularly busy at advertising this concept. But what they have also been doing, as this research shows, and fewer may have noticed, is being busy at traumatizing the Hungarian society with the concept of the Trianon Trauma. Just like their interwar elites did, from 1920 to 1940, with tangible personal interests at stake, who spread the concept of Trianon Trauma as a cover up for their mistakes, superiority complex and as a means to keep their privileges in the afterwar Hungarian society. The suffering induced by the trauma is real, we should make no mistake about that, but the trauma itself is induced by the Hungarian elites themselves, and not by actual historical events, as Hungarian researchers notice and argue below. With dramatic consequences on regular Hungarian people.

  • Issue Year: XIX/2022
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 21-34
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Romanian