Central European University / Department of History / 1995-1996 / MA Thesis
Supervisors: Sorin Antohi, Maria Kovács

INTRODUCTION

Chapter I:

I)Communism and Nationalism in Romania and Hungary

1)Nationalism and Internal Development in Hungary

2)Nationalism and Communism in Romania

2.1)The Socialist Nation and Minorities

Chapter II

II) Foreign Policy: Two Different Cases

1)Romanain foreign policy

1.1)Romania's Relations with the Communist Bloc

2) TheHungarian Communist Foreign Policy. Soviet-Hungarian Relations and Romania

3)Changing in the 1980's: On the way to collision

3.1)Soviet-Romanian Relations in the 1980's

3.2)Romanian-American Relations in the 1980's

3.3)US Administration, the Hungarian lobby and the Romanian-Hungarian Conflict

Chapter III:

III.a)The Romanian-Hungarian Diplomatic Conflict in the 1980's. Origin and Evolution

1) Preliminaries

1.1)Romanian-Hungarian historiographical polemics

III.b)Hungarian minority from Transylvania: the core of the Romanian-Hungarian conflict

2.1)Minorities in Eastern Europe. The Romanain case

2.2)The status of minorities in Romania; socio-economical aspects

2.3)The status of minorities in Romania; political aspects.

2.5)Romanian and Hungarian Dissidence: common ground, different reactions

2.6)Bucharest-Budapest controversies upon minority status

3)Towards a new stage of the conflict: great international confruntations

4)On the point without return: The last stage of the dispute

IV)CONCLUSIONS

V)BIBLIOGRAPHY