ELA COSMA Founded 102 years ago, as the first Institute of National History in Romania (1920), over time affiliated to the Cluj University and to the Romanian Academy, the current Institute of History – “George Barițiu” – in Cluj-Napoca had
LE CONGRÈS DE BERLIN ET L’INDÉPENDANCE DE LA ROUMANIE
GHEORGHE CLIVETI Abstract This historiographical approach of a very complex topic, especially concerning the recognition of the Romania՚s Independence at the Congress of Berlin, in 1878, involved a very intensive investigation of the documentary sources and an accurate evaluation of
LITERACY EFFORTS OF TRANSYLVANIAN SOCIETY IN THE YEARS BEFORE THE GREAT WAR. THE CASE OF TRANSYLVANIAN SOLDIERS ENLISTED IN THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN ARMED UNITS
FLORIN-LAURENŢIU BUCUR Abstract The beginning of the 20th century found the Romanian nation with a literacy rate that placed it among the least educated ones in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. With almost no initiative to educate the masses of illiterate adults
FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CLUJ AND THE ROMANIAN ACADEMY TO COMMUNIST PRISONS: THE ARREST (5–6 MAY 1950) AND INCARCERATION (MAY 1950 – July 1955) OF HISTORIAN IOAN LUPAȘ (1880–1967)
MIRCEA-GHEORGHE ABRUDAN Abstract In the night of 5 to 6 May 1950, the repressive organs of the communist regime in Romania arrested and interrogated 69 former dignitaries of the Romanian governments from the interwar period and the Second World War.
Gli architetti della prima generazione di borsisti della Scuola Romena di Roma ed il carteggio con l’accademico Giuseppe Lugli
VERONICA TURCUȘ Abstract The present study, based on an original archival material preserved in Rome at the Accademia di San Luca, intends to bring new data on aspects of institutional evolution and, especially, related to internal life and relations within
Bessarabia and Bukovina – From the Great Union to European Membership
GHEORGHE IACOB Abstract Even though Bessarabia and Bukovina were the first provinces to join the Romanian Kingdom in 1918, today all of Bessarabia and part of Bukovina are separated from the country. At the risk of walking the well-trodden path
Crusading in the Time of the Plague: The Arbitrage of Foligno
IOAN-AUREL POP, ALEXANDRU SIMON Abstract Since autumn 1475, the plague repeatedly ravaged Rome. Because of the renewed outbreak of the plague, in June 1476, Pope Sixtus IV left the city on the Tiber and took-up residence in Foligno, in Umbria.
La révolution roumaine de 1821. Des notes historiographiques
GHEORGHE CLIVETI Abstract For Romania’s modern history, the Revolution of 1821 was not only a landmark event, but also a founding one. The demands made, or points that could be assimilated to the revolutionary program, aimed, on the one hand,
Revolution, Uprising Or Coup D’état? A Critical Review Of The Romanian Historiographical Tradition Of The Movement Led By Tudor Vladimirescu
CRISTIAN PLOSCARU Abstract From a historical point of view, the events of 1821 have not only a political significance, insofar as they are associated with the idea of revolution, but also a symbolic one, as a result of the “epochal
Post-Cold War Controversies. The 1990 US – USSR Agreement not to Enlarge NATO in the Event of German Reunification
MIHAIL DOBRE Abstract The end of the Cold War was immediatelly followed by the 1990 Unification of Germany. That historical event was an exceptional diplomatic exercise, based on an innovative instrument (the „Two plus Four” mechanism), which led to a