SIMION RETEGAN, LUPTÂND PE DOUĂ FRONTURI. MEM-ORANDISTUL VASILE LUCACIU (FIGHTING ON TWO FRONTS. THE MEMORANDIST VASILE LUCACIU), ARGO-NAUT PUBLISHING HOUSE, CLUJ-NAPOCA, 2016, 553 P.
FIGHTING ON TWO FRONTS. THE MEMORANDIST VASILE LUCACIU, ARGO-NAUT PUBLISHING HOUSE, CLUJ-NAPOCA, 2016, 553 P.

Summary/Abstract: Father Vasile Lucaciu, “the Lion of Şişeşti”, is indisputably one of the excep-tional personalities of the Romanian nation's modern period. He contrib-uted decisively to the developments of the national movement of Transylvanian Romanians during the decades prior to World War I, to the strengthening of the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church and, last but not least, to the preparation and accomplishment of the Great Union. Therefore, such a historical figure has triggered the appreciation of those who admired and loved him, but also the hatred of those who detested him during his lifetime. He was not forgotten by historians; today, a century after the events that fulfilled his efforts, he still repre-sents a fresh, interesting, and generous study subject. Thus, 100 years after the “Romanian battalions” crossed the Carpathians, the Cluj-based historian Simion Retegan publish-es a monograph dedicated to Vasile Lu-caciu, a contribution that, according to current research on this topic, proves itself to be the most complete and voluminous work in respect of the proposed documentary contribution.

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