@article{MTMT:36225657,
	title = {The Human Factor: Living with and after Empire},
	url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/36225657},
	author = {Egry, Gábor László},
	doi = {10.1017/S096077732510091X},
	journal-iso = {CONTEMP EUR HIST},
	journal = {CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN HISTORY},
	volume = {34},
	unique-id = {36225657},
	issn = {0960-7773},
	abstract = {The article, as an afterword to the special issue Navigating Post-Imperial Transitions , uses the story of a Transylvanian Romanian and Greek Catholic family, the Pordeas, as an example of several key themes of the articles: managing difference within and after the empire, concrete consequences of international arrangements, agency of individuals in the transition. The Pordeas’ extremely intense engagement and entanglement with the empire highlights that a key feature of imperial biographies, the skill of connecting milieus as a way of differentiated rule, was not limited to the high-ranking imperial bureaucrats; it was rather a knowledge important in lower educated strata of society. After 1918, within nation states that often consciously used techniques of imperial rule for their own consolidation, it opened upward mobility and sometimes global horizon for these people. However, the ability to create connections is just as important for any state facing internal difference as it was for empires, showing how much empire was created from below.},
	year = {2025},
	eissn = {1469-2171},
	pages = {1-8},
	orcid-numbers = {Egry, Gábor László/0000-0001-5584-8090}
}

@article{MTMT:36154910,
	title = {The rise of Titans? Economic transition and local elites in post-1918 Banat and Transylvania},
	url = {https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/36154910},
	author = {Egry, Gábor László},
	doi = {10.1080/13507486.2024.2396818},
	journal-iso = {EUR REV HIST},
	journal = {EUROPEAN REVIEW OF HISTORY / REVUE EUROPEENNE D'HISTOIRE},
	volume = {31},
	unique-id = {36154910},
	issn = {1350-7486},
	abstract = {The article analyses two interrelated aspects of the reconfiguration of business and managerial groups in the southern Banat, an industrial powerhouse of pre-1918 Hungary, and Transylvania, annexed to Romania in 1919. First, it analyses the role of managerial groups in the survival of Budapest and Vienna high capital, and, second, the cooptation of new Romanian political elites into the existing structure of informal cooperation between economy and politics. The special position of the region within Austria-Hungary's economic space created strong ties with the centre, including notable investment by transnational capital in partnership with Vienna and Budapest business elites. However, while these companies were represented on the ground by managers and administrators, it was rather a multiethnic local economic elite that was entangled with other groups of local elites prior to 1918. After 1918, the attempt by Romania to strengthen Romanian capital at the expense of Austro-Hungarian businesses and the takeover of some of the administrative and most of the political elite positions at the local level by Romanian parties created a dynamic that endangered the existing balance. Subsequently, high capital used its existing business networks and engaged with Romanian capitalists to establish partnerships that preserved the influence of Austro-Hungarian owners. The managerial group of the transnational companies gained national significance as go-betweens, and the new local political elites were coopted with informal means to shield the owners from nationalization. Thus, the transition brought about a functional change of the role of the managerial group, but without making them more embedded locally. This equated to a partial reorientation of the region away from Budapest and Vienna and towards Bucharest as the new source of political but less of economic power, and a change within the political subgroup of the local elite, without, however, significantly modifying their practices of capital accumulation.},
	keywords = {Austria-Hungary; Managers; ELITES; Social mobility; interwar Romania},
	year = {2024},
	eissn = {1469-8293},
	pages = {788-816},
	orcid-numbers = {Egry, Gábor László/0000-0001-5584-8090}
}