Persuading Minds

Propaganda and Mobilisation in Transylvania during World War I

Ana Victoria Sima, Teodora-Alexandra Mihalache

• Publisher: Peter Lang Group
• Year: 2018
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783631739174
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Historiography
• Index: History

At the start of World War I, Transylvania was a multi-ethnic province that was still incorporated within the borders of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. The studies included in this collection show that the war and its propaganda affected the entire Transylvanian population, regardless of age, ethnic origin or social status. While some Transylvanians were required, by virtue of their profession, to enter the service of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy's propaganda machine, others chose to do so voluntarily or became the target population. The political and ecclesiastical authorities intended to persuade Transylvanians of the justness of the war and encouraged them to keep fighting and hold their ground, at home or on the front, wherever the war took them.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Foreword (Ana Victoria Sima)
• The Church’s Mobilisation of the Population in Support of the War Effort: A Study of Communication (Diana Covaci)
• The Priests’ Manifold Roles in Transylvania’s Romanian Communities during World War I (Mirela Popa-Andrei)
• Episcopal Circulars as Means of Conveying War Propaganda. Case Study: The Circulars Issued by the Vicariate of Maramureș (1914–1918) (Floarea Pop)
• War Propaganda: A Duty to the Nation and the Emperor. ASTRA and the Military Clergy during the Great War (Ionela Zaharia)
• Looking for Allies in the Enemy Camp. Secret Actions Undertaken by the Romanian Kingdom’s Intelligence among their Conationals from Austria-Hungary (1914–1916) (Andreea Dăncilă Ineoan)
• The Activity of Ştefan Cicio Pop during World War I (Corneliu Pădurean)
• A Transylvanian Metropolitan Involved in War Propaganda. Vasile Mangra in Unsettled Times (1916–1918) (Marius Eppel)
• Behind the Front. The Transylvanian Clerical Elite’s Stance on World War I (Ioana Mihaela Bonda / Oana Mihaela Tămaș)
• A “Mobilisation of Souls”: Actions in Support of the War Effort in Brașov during 1914 (Teodora-Alexandra Mihalache)
• Sickness and Suffering. Recollections of the Transylvanian Romanians Enlisted in the Austro-Hungarian Army during the Great War (Oana Habor)
• The Sentiment of Fear in the Great War. An Attempt to Reconstruct the Psychological Mindset of the Transylvanian Romanians (Nicolae Bocșan / Mihaela Bedecean)
• Writing and Waiting for Peace. Letters of Ordinary Romanian People from Transylvania at the Time of the Great War (Ana Victoria Sima)
• With the Camera in the Trenches (Tiberiu Iordan)
• Bibliography
• Name Index
• Geographical Index