Nation-Building and Contested Identities - MEK

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 1990–2000the nationality question in the Hungarian part of the Habsburg Empire.In the last two sections, one focusing on the interwar period and WorldWar II (1918-1945), the other on the emergence, consolidation anddemise of the communist regimes in Romania and Hungary (1945-1989),we sought to allocate equal weight to the interstate relations and to thehistory of the Hungarian minority in Romania. In the Hungarian historiographicaldiscourse, the relationship between the two nations was perceivedas basically conditioned by the situation of the Hungarian minorityin Romania, while the Romanian perspective concentrated mainly onthe diplomatic relations between the two countries, and on the Hungarianirredenta as a factor determining the relationship of the Hungarianminority to the Romanian state. Needless to say, these divergences cannotbe resolved by a bibliography and require thorough scholarly discussions.In order to facilitate these discussions, our selection contains representativesamples from both paradigms.A word is in order at this point about the types of works included inthis bibliography. The selection offers an overview of the Hungarian andRomanian historiographical works produced between 1990 and 2000 onthe history of Romania, Hungary, Transylvania, the Romanians in Hungaryand the Hungarian minority in Romania. Apart from some exceptionalcases, it concentrates on scholarly works and does not include articlespublished in dailies, or interviews. Together with scholarly works, itcomprises also numerous polemical writings, nationalist pamphlets andpropaganda works of historical nature, themselves representative of thepost-communist historiographical discourses, revealing thus an importantcomponent of the Romanian-Hungarian cultural and political relations.Special attention has been also paid to documenting the respective translationsof Hungarian or Romanian works into the other language andtheir critical reception, as well as the works published abroad by Hungarianand Romanian scholars, thus providing the reader with a certain sampleof the reception of these historiographical traditions outside of theregion. According to the linguistic criteria of selection, the subsections referringto works published in Hungarian include Hungarian authors fromRomania, publishing mostly in Hungarian. The bibliography also includesa certain number of translated works by foreign authors who have had animpact on the intellectual life in Romania and Hungary after 1989.Finally, a word of warning about the scope of this selection. The bibliographyis the first attempt to synthetize a vast bibliographical material,and bears unavoidable time and space limitations. The project will be furtherdeveloped with annotations, works dealing with the developments inHungarian-Romanian relations occurring after 1989, and works on theRomanian-Hungarian relations by foreign authors. At present stage, how-313