A romániai rendszerváltás és a nemzetiségi kérdés megjelenése
The Romanian Regime Change and the Emergence of the Nationalities Question

Summary/Abstract: One of the most important problems emerging in the first months of the Romanian regime change was the nationalities question, paradoxically declared to have been solved by the previous regime. First, the new power structures made promises to the national minorities on the declarative level. The questions emerging during the political transition and the unsolved problems stemming from Romanian-Hungarian coexistence at the local level have soon given a new direction to the problem of the nationalities. The weak central leadership, already suffering from problems of legitimacy, subordinated this issue to the preservation of power. Conflictual situations arose in the ethnically mixed area, culminating in the event of March 1990 in Târgu Mureş/Marosvásárhely.

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