Serfs Into Romanians. The Road From Blaj to Alba Iulia (1848-1918)

The goal of the present paper is to show how  both in  the  autumn  of 1918 and before the Union of Transylvania with Romania on 1 December 1918, liberalism and nationalism steered the course of the Romanian nation in Transylvania as it entered the modern era. Romanians had  accumulated democratic experience over several decades, with effective results in managing ecclesiastical, educational, cultural, social and economic  problems. Our attempt   at reconstructing the destiny of the Romanian civil society in the process of laying the democratic foundations of the Union of 1918 has revealed the complex political, economic  and social transformations of the Habsburg monarchy from  the 1848 revolution to the First World War.

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