Szövetségek és politikai kötelékek Erdélyben, 1917–1918
Alliances and Political Ties in Transylvania, 1917–1918

Summary/Abstract: Political actors, even on different sides of the political fence, are able to make alliances. Sometimes their relationship is indirect but have common goals they pursue together. Since the turn of the century, the debates related to nation, state and the Transylvanian region focused on property rights, voting right reforms and the unanswered question of nationbuilding. Even if the various - and at times competing - Hungarian political groups offered different answers, for example in the question of suffrage, all were organized around the identity politics of the thousand-year-old state and the Hungarian nation-state's history. This study examines how a regional anti-Tisza alliance was organised after 1910 by different political actors mainly connected to the independentist opposition, as well as the social democrats. They started a political movement, wanted to act locally and regionally, they repackaged the Transylvania-question into a self-defence strategy, and attacked the ruling party's administration and its representatives from the outside and from the bottom. The Transylvanian Committee of the Hungarian National Council was formed in October 1918 by the Independent, Radical, and Social Democratic parties to make a last attempt to save Transylvania.

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