Vasile Stoica, “The sorrows of Ardeal”. Reading notes
Vasile Stoica, “The sorrows of Ardeal”. Reading notes

Summary/Abstract: The history of Ardeal (Transylvania) is still today a subject treated by both Romanian and Hungarian historians. Ardeal, one of the three Romanian provinces together with Moldova and Wallachia, has been a place where the history of the region has represented a continuous interaction between three forces: the Romanians, the Hungarians, and the Habsburg Dynasty. The idea is the work of Vasile Stoica (1889–1959), one of the most prominent Romanian diplomats of the interwar period, who died in the communist prison of Jilava. The interdependence of these three forces generated a historical series of sufferings and injustices for the Romanians of Transylvania, which the Romanian diplomat summarised and ordered chronologically in his work “The sorrows of Ardeal”. On their side were the Romanians of Moldova and Wallachia by virtue of their acts of solidarity. The Sufferings of the Romanians of Transylvania and the support received from their brothers across the mountains are two of the guiding ideas of the book. Both were the reasons for the entry of the Kingdom of Romania into the First World War. The book was a means used by the Romanian delegation to convince the North American opinion of the rightness of the Romanian cause. The honesty of the author, a Romanian originally from Ardeal, with his ability to synthesise, make “The sorrows of Ardeal” a representative work for the Romanian perspective on the history of this are.

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