Original scientific paper
THE ZAGREB OPPOSITION PAPER SÜDSLAWISCHE ZEITUNG AND THE REPRECUSSIONS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY TURMOIL IN 1848-1849 IN CROATIA AND VOJVODINA
Vlasta Švoger
; Croatian Institute of History, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The author analyzes the writing of the Zagreb opposition paper "Südslawische Zeitung" concerning the revolutionary turmoil during 1848-1849 in Croatia and Vojvodina. The editorial board of the newspaper Südslawische Zeitung carefully monitored and reported to its readership all the relevant events occurring in the region mentioned above. It judged the events occurring in Croatia and the Monarchy according to the main objectives of the Croatian political movement, or in other words, according to the objectives and interests of the Slavic peoples of the Monarchy. It tied the interests of the Croatian and Serbian political movement believing that in this way the Croats would more easily be able to realize their own national goals in the struggle against the Magyar revolutionary movement which was antagonistic to the national claims of the non-Magyar peoples of Hungary. The unsettled questions, above all others territorial delimitation, which were suppressed became all the more apparent after the octroyed constitution revealed that the goal of a alliance between the Triune Kingdom and the Serbian Vojvodina would not come to pass in the scope of a Habsburg Monarchy reorganized as a federation of equal nations. Both the Croatian and Serbian public was dissatisfied with Vienna's treatment of them and they mounted a strong resistance to the proclamation of the octroyed constitution which legalized the centralistic orientation of Vienna's rule. The proclamation of Serbian Vojvodina and Banat as distinct crown lands in November, 1849 showed that the Vienna government was dealing with the question of a Croato-Serbian alliance according to its own interests; the Serbian Vojvodina was being turned into a district under its control. The disgruntlement of the Serbs was directed at the Croats, but the Südslawische Zeitung retained its liberal and tolerant orientation.
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212205
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Publication date:
1.12.1999.
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