CONCEPTS AND APROACHES REGARDING NATION AS A POLITICAL AND CULTURAL UNITY
CONCEPTS AND APROACHES REGARDING NATION AS A POLITICAL AND CULTURAL UNITY

Summary/Abstract: In this study I will analyze the conceptions developed by Romanian thinkers regarding the formation of the nation and of the unitary Romanian state. After the union of the Romanian Principalities (The Romanian Country and Moldova) into a unitary state, in 1859, the aspiration that inspirited the action taken by the main political and social forces was the completion of this political unity, by uniting and integrating within the Romanian national state the other Romanian provinces as well (Transylvania, Bessarabia, Bucovina) that were still under the control of anachronistic empires. This ideal was achieved in 1918, after relentless efforts, struggles and special sacrifices, which had a happy outcome at the end of the First World War. The Romanians’ cultural unity, cemented over the centuries, represented a fundamental support for the construction of the political unity of 1918. The Romanian political thinking has always put in close connection the achievement of national ideal with the imperative of social modernization.

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