Az Erdélyi Párt dominanciája és az anyaországi pártok térnyerési kísérletei Észak-Erdélyben 1940 és 1944 között
The Dominancy of the Transylvanian Party and the Motherland Parties’ Bids for Headway in Northern Transylvania Between 1940 and 1944

Summary/Abstract: The study entitled The dominancy of the Transylvanian Party and the motherland parties’ Bids for headway in Northern Transylvania between 1940 and 1944 deals with the theme of political life in Northern Transylvania reannexed to Hungary during the Second World War. After the reintegration of the region into the Hungarian state following the Second Vienna Arbitration, all of the existing Hungarian parties made a bid for take over the political power in Northern Transylvania. The Hungarian inhabitants were in slight majority in the returned territories, and shortly appeared the necessity of Hungarian political unity in the region. For this reason, the local Hungarians established their own political party, the Transylvanian Party, with powerful local characteristics. In these years the Transylvanian Party became the most important Hungarian political formation in Eastern Hungary. The paper concentrates on the analysis of the Transylvanian Party, it presents its foundation, its local organizations network, and its relations with the Hungarian Government and with other Hungarian political parties. Finally, in the study there are described the rising of the extreme right parties after the German invasion in March 1944 and the decline of the Transylvanian Party. The source material of the paper consists of archival data, special books, studies, memoirs, and articles of the contemporary Transylvanian press.

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