About identity, in Central and Eastern Europe

This blog is an academic diary of my Ph.D. paper, dealing with minority issues in Central and Eastern Europe, mainly the relation between Romanian and Hungarian intellectuals in post-communist Romania. It is aimed to discuss concepts and ideas, methodology or simple facts related to the way in which minorities and majorities are interacting on a daily or crisis-situation basis.

Communism ended-up as a ruling system in the countries from the region, peacefully or in a violent way, and the past was integrated in different percentages in the post-communist experiences. The change of mentalities is by far the most difficult and it will take at least two generations (approximatively 60 years) to get rid of intellectual habits and to reshape basic ideas from the common living, civic involvement and establishment of a healthy political and economic life. Again, the changes could be different, from the point of view of the historical heritages and the opportunities offered for the creation of new elites - economic, political, intellectual. And this process is regarding both the minorities and the majorities from the countries they are living in.