Constituirea Ligii Apărării Naţional Creştine în Bucovina,1923-1926
The Founding of Right-Wing movement in interwar Bucovina: the case of the National-Christian Defense League

Summary/Abstract: The interwar period represented for Bukovina the connection to the Romanian national state from an administrative, economic and political point of view. After the Union, the electoral and agrarian reforms were felt. The political life focused on two main ideas: the rapid integration within the Romanian state structures, respectively the preservation of a large local autonomy. Thus, the first conflicts with minorities appeared in Bucovina, of which the most resounding were the ones with the Jewish. The anti-Semitism in Bucovina was not a trend specific only for the interwar period. It also existed during the Austrian period, but it manifested in a latent and much less violent way to take strident forms. The enemies of centralism and of the minorities’ role in the economic and political life of the province grouped around Ion Zelea Codreanu, deputy of the Democrat Nationalist Party. In 1923, in Campulung Moldovenesc, it took place the congress for the incorporation of the organization Liga Apararii Nationale Crestine din Bucovina L.A.N.C. (National-Christian Defense League of Bucovina) and the Codreanu’s group, the organizations of the Bucovina Archers, the members of the Romanian National Fascia, the local anti-Semites, the former fighters in the Autro- Hungarian army and others adhered to.

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