This volume of studies presents the relationship between society and
state in 20th century Transylvania belonging since 1918 to Romania. The
articles written mainly by Transylvanian historian, political scientist
and anthropologist scholars, university lecturers present and emphasise
the political, cultural and economic structure and self-organization of
different entities of Transylvanian society - Hungarians, Romanians,
Germans, Jews, political-cultural-economic elites, peasants and urban
population - as a resistance against or adaptation towards state
policies (centralization, assimilation, repression, censorship of
culture, command on economic and ideological sphere) during the interwar
and WWII period (1918-1944), as well as during the socialist regime
(1945-1989).