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Csobai Lászlóné: The history of the Hungarian–Romanian Society 1945–1950

Csobai Lászlóné IRODALOM IZSÁK 1938. Izsák Lajos: Polgári ellenzéki pártok Magyarországon 1944-1949. Budapest, 1983. PÖLÖSKEI-GERGELY-IZSÁK 1994. Pölöskei Ferenc, Gergely Jenő, Izsák Lajos (szerk.): 20. századi magyar történelem 1900-1994. Budapest, 1994. RÖVIDÍTÉSEK VKM = Vallás- és Közoktatásügyi Minisztérium KÜM = Külügyminisztérium UMKL = Új Magyar Központi Levéltár МММ NGy. Hd. = Munkácsy Mihály Múzeum, Nemzetiségi Gyűjtemény, Helytörténeti dokumentum The history of the Hungarian-Romanian Society 1945-1950 - Lászlóné Csobai Résumé The author was the first who undertook to write the history of the HungarianRomanian Society from 1945 till 1950. The introduction of the study analyzes the internal and external political state of Hungary at the end of the II. World War. The conditions of the establishment of the Hungarian-Romaian Society in Budapest is described in a distinct chapter. The study explains what initiative was launched at the end of the war and what forces and groups agitated and acted for the peaceful restoration of the country. The chapter Nr. three and four describe in details the establishment, objectives, organization structure, tasks and activities, realized programs of the Budapest Hungarian-Romanian Society and Debrecen Hungarian-Romanian Society. The study reveals what role played the Society in the restoration of the country after the war in 1945, and how much depended the Society on the politics. The history of the Debrecen Hungarian-Romanian Society is just shortly mentioned, because the archives source-material - relating to the activities of the regional branch societies has been preserved very incompletely. The establishment, operation, program and the regional organizations of the Bucurest Romanian-Hungarian Society are just outlined in the fifth chapter, because its archives materials, to be found in Budapest, are very incomplete. Both the Budapest and Debrecen Hungarian-Romanian Society, carried on meaningful publishing activities, but it is valid also on the Bucurest Romanian548