Sorin Șipoș, Ioan Bolovan, Adina-Maria Cornea
Abstract. In historian Silviu Dragomir’s work on the investigation of the national phenomenon, specifically the 1848 Revolution. Chronologically speaking, the national movement of 1848–1849 is the last theme investigated by the historian. However, he is considered by most exegetes to be the specialist of the 1848 Revolution. As Pompiliu Teodor writes, it is practically the image that has remained, for most, better fixed by the monograph published posthumously on Avram Iancu. Behind the monograph, however, lies a rich and impressive bibliography, a vast chapter of historiography that he has worked on throughout time with perseverance and passion. Silviu Dragomir did not have the opportunity to see his recent research on the revolution published. The political context proved to be still hostile to the truth about the Romanian-Hungarian relations during the revolution. Not even the insistence of Andrei Oțetea, a historian close to influential circles of the party, could persuade the authorities. Hardliners in the party considered that Dragomir propagated bourgeois opinions and had a chauvinist attitude because of the conclusions he reached in the manuscript of his work on Avram Iancu, which were supported by documents of the time. The work Avram Iancu was published by Editura Științifică only in 1965. Today, after analyzing and comparing the various versions of the historian’s work from the archive in Deva with the version for printing finalized in 1958 and with the work published by Editura Științifică in 1965, we can identify the stages Silviu Dragomir went through in finalizing the manuscript and specify how much the political and ideological factor was involved in the final version.
Keywords: Silviu Dragomir, 1848 Romanian Revolution in Transylvania, Avram Iancu.