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    STUDIA THEOLOGIA%20REFORMATA%20TRANSYLVANICA - Issue no. 1-2 / 2008  
         
  Article:   THE KULAKS OF SOVATA AND OF ITS NEIGHBORING VILLAGES / SZOVÁTA ÉS A HOZZÁTARTOZÓ FALVAK KULÁKJAI.

Authors:  JÁNOSI CSONGOR. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:   The avalanche started by Gheorghiu-Dej on the plenary meeting of the Romanian Workers’ Party of the 3–5th of March 1949, with its programme aiming the socialist transformation of the agriculture and the class-struggle announced within it, reaches the studied settlements relatively late. In Sovata – which belonged to the Sîngeorgiu de Pădure district of the Hungarian Self-Governing Province – the first kulak registeris made up on the 9th of June 1952 out of the residents of Sovata – then considered a commune – and the villages of Săcădat, Ilieşi and Sărăţeni that belonged to it. The list of the first 50 persons is followed a month later, on the 25th of June 1952, by a supplementary list carrying the names of another 32 persons. Based on the appeals and petitions of the persons labelled as kulak the existence of a third list, realized between these two, can be inferred. As a result of our investigation, out of the 106 names found, we succeeded to trace a total of 86 persons in the officially motivated registry.
Our investigation is mainly based on the materials of the Târgu-Mureş Directorate of the National Archives and on interviews carried out with the oral history method. Who is a kulak? On what motives was somebody labelled as a kulak? What kinds of discriminations and technical restrictions were the concerned faced with? What possibilities, actions were at the disposal of the „kulaks” in order to clear their social categorisation? This study intends to provide answers to these questions, contributingat the same time to the development of the local history of Sovata and its area.

Keywords: Communism, kulaks, discrimination, Romania, Sovata. 		 
         
     
         
         
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