The Situation of Education in Hungarian Language under the Regime of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej Cover Image

Situaţia învăţământului în limba maghiară sub regimul lui Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej
The Situation of Education in Hungarian Language under the Regime of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej

Author(s): Katalin Oanta
Subject(s): Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: Hungarian minority; education in mother tongue; Romanian-Hungarian relations; communism; the 1956 Revolution; nationalism

Summary/Abstract: The working paper focuses on the issue of education in Hungarian language in Romania, during the communist leadership, more specifically during Gheorghiu-Dej era. The period analyzed is one of a great importance from the perspective of decisions taken by the Romanian communist leadership in the field of education in the mother tongue, in general, in Hungarian, in particular. It is essential to know the reasons and mechanisms behind the measures adopted, especially during the end of the sixtieth and the beginning of the seventieth decades of the previous century, in order to better understand the background of some of the requests constantly expressed by the Hungarian minority living in Romania after 1989, which are supported by Hungary, as its kin-State, such as the reestablishment of a Hungarian university in our country.

  • Issue Year: LIV/2015
  • Issue No: 54
  • Page Range: 223-247
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: Romanian