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    STUDIA HISTORIA - Issue no. 2 / 2018  
         
  Article:   ROMANIANS’ IDEALS OF LIBERALISM AND NATIONALITY IN 1918 / LIBERALISM ŞI NAŢIONALITATE LA ROMÂNI ÎN ANUL 1918.

Authors:  IOAN BOLOVAN. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The Romanians’ Ideals of Liberalism and Nationality in 1918. The goal of the present paper is to show how both in the autumn of 1918 and before the Union of Transylvania with Romania on 1 December 1918, liberalism and nationalism steered the course of the Romanian nation in Transylvania as it entered the modern era. Romanians had accumulated democratic experience over several decades, with effective results in managing ecclesiastical, educational, cultural, social and economic problems. In the autumn of 1918, when the Great War was nearing its end and the Austro-Hungarian Empire was on the brink of breaking apart, they were able to assume the responsibility of detaching Transylvania from Hungary and providing fair and efficient governance in a province that had been devastated by 4 years of war and was now on the verge of collapse. Our attempt at reconstructing the destiny of the church and of Romanian civil society in the process of laying the democratic foundations of the Union of 1918 has revealed the complex political, economic and social transformations of the Habsburg monarchy from the 1848 revolution to the First World War.

Keywords: Austro-Hungarian Empire, Transylvania, Romanian civil society, liberalism and nationalism 		 
         
     
         
         
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