Fedinec Csilla: A kárpátaljai magyarság történeti kronológiája 1918-1944 - Nostra Tempora 7. (Galánta-Dunaszerdahely, 2002)
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528 Summary Summary HISTORICAL CHRONOLOGY OF HUNGARIAN PEOPLE LIVING IN THE TRANSCARPATHIA 1918-1944 The traditional order of chronology creation is that the authors compile a crystallised order of events on the basis of excellent works accepted by professionals. Today, in the case of Transcarpathia this principle cannot be followed yet, because the relevant historical literature (in Hungarian language) either only touches the topic or produces books using specific, rather journalistic methods, involving mainly longer periods and more (professional) fields, and many times facts that cannot be traced back. At the same time the economic, cultural, and political history of Transcarpathia, and the history of Hungarian people living there, etc. - and a lot of "small" topics within these - have not been written. Ukrainian historians achieved more serious results in the last decade, which primarily on the basis of Ukrainian and Slovak archive materials produced remarkable works. Hence, this chronology can be considered as a problem cadastre from the point of view of the history of Hungarians that is situated - and it should be emphasised - in a Russian-Ukrainian historical frame in which it functioned and without which it cannot be interpreted. During the work - besides using professional literature -the emphasis was set on archive researches and contemporary press analysis. The 10th Population Act in 1918, in which Mihály Károly's government granted Transcarpathia - Ruszka Krajna according to the act - autonomy, that had almost no practical importance for the region, because the foreign army began to enter to the territory in January 1919. Ruszka Krajna’s borders were gradually getting tightened. The Upper-Tisza area got under the authority of the Romanian army and the Czechoslovak army occupied the western part stretching to the Ung River and that comprised Uzhhorod, too. Territory gaining by the army continued in the times of the Hungarian Soviet Republic that existed for 40 days in March-April on the autonomy territories that were accepted by the constitution of the Hungarian Soviet Republic and that was ended by the Czechoslovak and the Romanian army occupation in the region. Apart from the Hungarian efforts to arrange the situation of territories inhabited by Ruthenian people, to retain the region and to avoid detachment and disannex there were other important attempts that also. We have chosen two of these, considering their importance. The first was the so-called Ukrainian stream that was the strongest in Máramaros. The main goal of this stream’s representatives was to achieve
