Az Országos Magyar Párt és az erdélyi parasztság viszonya: sajtókampány és ennek eredményessége a két világháború közötti magyar falusi közösségekben
The Relation between the Hungarian Party and the Transylvanian Peasantry. Electoral Campaign and its Efficiency in the Interwar Hungarian Rural Communities

Summary/Abstract: The study of the relation between the Hungarian Party and the Hungarian peasants in Romania during the interwar period still remains an area still opened to research. Even on behalf of Romanian and Hungarian historiography, several studies discuss only superficially this relation between the Hungarian Party and the Hungarians from Romania, but these are presented very stereotypically and superficial. The current thesis, according to which the elite of the Hungarian Party was made up only of barons and counts, and that it was not at all representative for the Romanian Hungarians, not supporting their interests, has become embedded in Romanian historiography and journalism as far back as during the interwar period, and was further emphasized later during the communist period. In spite of the fact that the greater part of the Romanian Hungarian political elite was comprised of barons and counts, the image is not so unitary as shown by Romanian historiography. The formation of regional political clusters may be observed, with the orientations inside the Hungarian Party (conservative rightist, reformist leftist), the differences between the political strategies of the two orientations, and the differences towards the Hungarian peasants in Romania. Such differences occasionally lead to separations from the Hungarian Party (Bernády György, Kós Károly), but these did not threaten the party’s position on the political stage. This study aims to analyze the attitude of the Hungarian Party towards Hungarian village society in Romania, the Hungarian peasantry in Romania. In this study I will try to analyze the attitude of the Hungarian Elite towards the Hungarian peasantry and the press campaign of the Hungarian Party in the interwar period. I hope I have managed to answer some questions, but I am aware of the fact that there are still many other questions waiting to be answered.

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