April - September 2014
Mail: flavius.solomon(at)yahoo(dot)de
Flavius Solomon has been a fellow at the Imre Kertész Kolleg from April until September 2014. He is a full-time researcher at the A. D. Xenopol - Institute of History in Iaşi, where he heads the Departament of the History of International Relations. He defended his PhD on the ecclesiastical history of the medieval Moldavian Principality in 1995. Since then, his research interests have focused on the emergence of national identities in Eastern Europe and on the situation of ethnic minorities in the region. Dr Solomon was a fellow of the DAAD and the Humboldt Foundation. He is an external fellow of the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg. From 2011 to 2013, Dr Solomon was a member of the Romanian National Research Council (CNCS).
Nation State and Social Democracy. The Romanian Left During the Balkan Wars and World War I
The history of the social democratic movement in Romania is the main focus of this project. This history is seen in the context of the clash between the two major paradigms that marked the history of European social democracy in the first two decades of the twentieth century: the nation state and internationalism. The project aims to discuss the way in which Romanian Social Democratic ideologists responded to the great debate on the nation state during the Balkan Wars and World War I in the broader context of the evolution of the Second International and, later, as a part of the confrontation between the Social Democrats who remained faithful to the Second International and the supporters of the emerging Comintern. Given that - in the Romanian political and economic context - the impact of social democratic movements was more important on the level of ideas than in the practical political sphere, the analysis concentrates on the dynamics of political discourse, in particular on three distinct issues: 1) the social democratic movement in Romania in the context of European debates concerning the nation state and internationalism; 2) the interaction of Romanian Social Democratic ideologists with the prevailing political trends in Romania; and 3) the controversies within the social democratic milieu concerning their position vis-à-vis the national phenomenon.
Politică şi confesiune la început de ev mediu moldovenesc [Politics and Religion in the Early Moldavian Middle Ages] (Iaşi, 2004), 272 pp..
Identitate etnică şi minorităţi în Republica Moldova. O bibliografie [Ethnic Identity and Minorities in the Republic of Moldova. A Bibliography] (Iaşi, 2001), 200 pp.
130 ani de relaţii diplomatice româno-germane, 1880-2010 / 130 Jahre deutsch-rumänische diplomatische Beziehungen, 1880-2010. Sonderheft des "Anuarul Institutului de Istorie A.D. Xenopol". Hrsg. von Flavius Solomon und Peter Mario Kreuter. (Iaşi, 2012), 220 pp.
Partide politice şi minorităţi naţionale din România în secolul XX [Political Parties and National Minorities in 20th-Century Romania], vol. 6, ed. by Vasile Ciobanu, Flavius Solomon, Sorin Radu, (Cluj-Napoca, 2011), 422 pp.
Vorbild Europa und die Modernisierung Mittel- und Südosteuropas. Hrsg. von Flavius Solomon, Krista Zach, Juliane Brandt (Münster, 2009), 312 pp.
Ethnic Contacts and Cultural Exchanges North and West of the Black Sea. From the Ottoman Conquest to the Present, ed. by Flavius Solomon and Alexandru Zub (Iaşi, 2005), 315 pp.
Migration im südöstlichen Mitteleuropa. Auswanderung, Flucht, Deportation, Exil im 20. Jahrhundert, hrsg. von Krista Zach, Flavius Solomon und Cornelius R. Zach (München, 2005), 388 pp.
Südosteuropa im 20. Jahrhundert. Ethnostrukturen, Identitäten, Konflikte, hrsg. von Flavius Solomon, Alexander Rubel und Alexandru Zub (Konstanz; Iaşi, 2004), 255 pp.
Sovietization in Romania and Czechoslovakia. History, Analogies, Consequences, ed. by Alexandru Zub and Flavius Solomon (Iaşi, 2003), 240 pp.
Punţi în istorie. Studii româno-germane [Bridges in History. Romanian-German Studies], ed. by Cătălin Turliuc and Flavius Solomon (Iaşi, 2001), 179 pp.
Basarabia. Dilemele identităţii [Bessarabia. Identity Dilemmas], ed. by Flavius Solomon and Alexandru Zub (Iaşi, 2001), 329 pp.
Confesiune, Societate, Naţiune [Religion, Society, Nation], ed. by Flavius Solomon ("Xenopoliana", VII, 3-4) (Iaşi, 1999), 144 pp.
I. D. Ştefănescu (1886-1981), ed. by Flavius Solomon and Alexandru Zub (Iaşi, 1997), 250 pp.
Национальные государства и национальные меньшинства в постверсальской Европе [Nation-States and National Minorities in Post-Versailles Europe], in: Версальско-вашингтонская международно-правовая система: зарождение, развитие, кризис, отв. ред. Сергеев Евгений Юрьевич (Москва, 2010), pp. 100-125.
Das europäische Vorbild und die Urbanisierung in Südosteuropa am Ende des 19. und zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts, in: Vorbild Europa und die Modernisierung in Mittel- und Südosteuropa, hrsg. von Flavius Solomon, Krista Zach, Juliane Brandt (Münster, 2009), pp. 71-86.
Kommunismus und ethnische Minderheiten in Rumänien nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, in: Europa im Wandel. Literatur, Werte und Europäische Identität. Dokumentation der Internationalen Fachtagung der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, der Andrássy-Universität und der ELTE-Universität Budapest, 3.-6. März 2005 in Budapest, hrsg. von Michael Braun, Birgit Lermen, Lars Peter Schmidt, Klaus Weigelt (Sankt-Augustin, 2005), pp. 91-111.
Die Slawen und die orthodoxe Kirche in der Moldau und in der Walachei Ende des 14. und Anfang des 15. Jahrhunderts, in: Südosteuropa. Von vormoderner Vielfalt und nationalstaatlicher Vereinheitlichung. Festschrift für Edgar Hösch, hrsg. von Konrad Clewing und Oliver Jens Schmitt (München, 2005), pp. 119-131.
Between Europe and Tradition: Church and Society in Orthodox Eastern Europe, in: "Religion, State, & Society" (Oxford), 26 (1998), 2 (June), pp. 101-110.