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This paper discusses the content of the cadre file of Henri H. Stahl preserved in the Archives of the University of Bucharest’s Rectorate. In the form in which it has been preserved after 1989, the personnel file of H.H. Stahl seems, from several points of view, atypical. If we compare it with the cadre files of the 1950s, it surprises by the apparent “goodwill” of the communist cadres towards H.H. Stahl. This ideological solicitude is manifested in the interpretation given to main cultural and political events in H.H. Stahl’s life. In other circumstances such political past could be labeled as unusable in a communist context. Equally curious and noteworthy is the issue of the ethnic origin attributed (and not necessarily real or assumed by the one described in the file), more precisely the issue of Stahl’s nationality ( Jewish) which was recorded in the file. Analyzing Stahl cadre file we can wonder if the integrity of this dossier has not been compromised by removing, extracting or modifying documents by the personel staff services or by someone else. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper deals with the possibility of reconstructing the historical population of the Country of Năsăud (Transylvania, Romania) during the late eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth century, starting from the preserved parish registers. The first part underlines the state of research in Romanian historical demography, the importance of reconstructing historical populations and the general features of the envisioned sources. The main part of the paper offers an overview of the preserved parish registers for the Country of Năsăud, analysing the actual range of possible population reconstruction for each ethnicity and denomination. The region under study had an overwhelming Romanian population (over 90%), although Germans (Saxons), Jews and a handful of Hungarians were also present. This particular feature, combined with the fact that, being a border regiment area, most of the Romanians were Greek-Catholics, makes the reconstruction attempts easier. Problems are raised by two aspects. The first one concerns the Romanian Orthodox and the Hungarian Calvinist minorities scattered in very small communities all over the region, for which the parish registers are badly preserved or, sometimes, completely missing. The second aspect concerns more compact communities, like German (Catholics and Lutherans) and Jews, for which parish registers are preserved, but only for a few decades, allowing the reconstruction of only one generation. Beside these two problems, the time and resources-consuming character of the population reconstruction activities is also highlighted, and the conclusions point out not only the theoretical reconstruction possibilities, but also the necessity of involving local historians into this task, in order to ease and fasten the data entry operations from the archive documents into the database hosted by the Centre for Population Studies at "Babeş-Bolyai" University Cluj-Napoca. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reconstructs the mechanisms through which the work of the French scholar of Romanian origin, Mattei Dogan was brought to light in Romania after 1990 thanks to the eff orts of the community of sociologists. Romanian sociologists used three methods to assimilate the author who is considered the founder of comparative political analysis and who left Romania immediately after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in sociology under Henri H. Stahl supervision: they translated Dogan’s articles and books, they made him a member of prestigious institutions and they included him in the post-communist eff ort to reclaim the legacy of the school founded by Dimitrie Gusti. To capture the institutional and editorial strategies that were used, I conducted interviews with several protagonists of the Romanian sociology renaissance movement. I also used epistolary resources, sociology and political science journals, press articles, as well as documents from the archives of the University of Bucharest and from the Mattei Dogan Foundation. The article shows the success of some methods and the failure of others. It also brings to light a text that was ignored in the studies and bibliographies that discuss the work of the scholar who was born in Roman in 1920 and who went by the name of Matei Pinsler until 1945 (Preda, 2020). This research paper is relevant for various reasons. Firstly, it complements not only the biography of Dogan, but also that of Henri H. Stahl. Furthermore, it highlights the trajectory of a discipline in a period of dissociation with the communist past while restoring the connections with the interwar period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is a brief study of sociological research in the archives. The method used is that of observation, respectively of the comparative study of the documents and interpretation of the selected information. The researcher aims to bring in actuality and to present, especially for young readers, secure and unclassified information about the communist educational system and the party propaganda. The paper contains few comments, the content, almost entirely consisting of official data and information belonging to the Archives Fund of the Town Committee Targu Jiu of the RCP. Most of the research activity in archives has been allocated to study "the education through work and for work", "the propaganda work" of the party and "the political-ideological education", as forms of mass education in the communist totalitarian stateThe article, by its content especially well documented, is constituted in a guidebook for those who are concerned with the research of the totalitarian communist regime in Romania. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The subject of this paper is part of a larger research dedicated to the life and activity of the historian Stefan Metes (1887 1977) and is focused on a report made by the Director of the Cluj State Archives, addressed to Iuliu Maniu as President of the Ministry Council. This report which is in fact a real documentary source shows the state of the Transylvanian archives in the third decade of the 20th century, taken over by the Romanian authorities after the 1918 Unification and neglected by the previous Transylvanian establishment, dispersed or kept in inappropriate conditions. The report also advocates for a regional headquarters of the Cluj Archives and for qualifying the staff for organizing, researching and recovering the archival funds and documents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]