Die sozialen und nationalen Gegensätze in der Revolution von 1848/49 in Siebenbürgen
Social and national antagonism in the revolution of 1848/49 in Transylvania

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the diverse claims of the different ethno-political groups in Transylvania during the revolution of 1848/49. Disputes about varying concepts of individual-civic and collective-national rights did not only separate hungarian nationalists, romanians and transylvanian saxons, but even inside these groups there could be found differing opinions. The question of social reforms, especially the liberation of villeins, that stood at the beginning of the revolution, was more and more eclipsed by national claims by the hungarian nationalists on the one side and the resistence agains the union of Transylvania with Hungary and a hungarian national state by the other groups on the other side. Events developped to a bloody civil war that was eventually won by the imperial Habsburg troups, thanks to russian military backing.

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