by Laurentiu Dologa | May 17, 2020 | Hungary
Major Nancovici, an envoy of the Romanian commission in Budapest, drew up a brief report on the state of the Hungarian capital after the first few days of occupation. Surprisingly, while people were starving, the Bolsheviks had gathered in the ”Hungarian Discount and... by Laurentiu Dologa | May 14, 2020 | Hungary
Bela Kun’s dictatorship lasted for half a year. Half a year in which the policies of the Bolshevik regime ruined the country. In a last ditch effort to regain popular support, the dictator rallied his armies against the Czechoslovaks and Romanians, wanting to take... by Ana Maria Schiopu | Jan 30, 2020 | Austria, Hungary, World War I in 1918
The war did not take into account profession. Horațiu Deacu was a teacher in 1914, when he left for the front. Between August 12 and October 21, 1914 he kept a diary, which was published by his family in 1930. There, on the Galician Front, the Romanian who was... by Ciprian Stoleru | Sep 12, 2019 | Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia
To ensure its security, Romania sought immediately after the end of the First World War to conclude a series of regional alliances. The Little Entente and the alliance with Poland were subsumed to this objective. The First World War did not end for Romania in November... by Ana Maria Schiopu | Sep 10, 2019 | Hungary, Romania
In their visit to Transylvania, in 1919, King Ferdinand and Queen Marie could not miss Cluj. The city welcomed them with open arms, Queen Marie writing in her journal the following: “At 10:30 we arrived in Cluj, the largest city of the ones I visited. Even though the... by Iulian Simbeteanu | Aug 18, 2019 | Hungary, Romania, World War I in 1918
First published in 1922, the Forest of the Hanged is one of the most important novels in the history of Romanian literature. The novel written by Liviu Rebreanu is inspired by the tragedy of his brother, Emil Rebreanu. He was a lieutenant in the Austro-Hungarian army,...