Between Constraint and Community Service. Transylvanian Intellectual Imre Mikó and the Securitate

This article is part of a larger project about state-society relations in communist Romania focusing on conformity, adaptation and coexistence with the system. Its overall aim is to explore the motivations and patterns of collaboration among the Transylvanian Hungarian minority through the life of lawyer, politician and writer Imre Mikó (1911–1977), a leading personality of that community whose strategy of collaboration will be at the center of this analysis.