A Nemzeti Ujság politikai állásfoglalása és a márciusi fordulat, 1845–1848

Abstract

The aim of my study is to show a Hungarian conservative newspaper’s political principles during the second half of the 1840s. The Nemzeti Ujság was undergoing massive changes under the direction of Sándor Lipthay between the last two Hungarian diets of the Reform Era. The events of the examined period had serious effects upon those changes. For instance the moderate censorship; the diet of 1843/44 and the resulting opposition of the absolutist governemnt of Wien; furthermore the foundation of the Hungarian Conservative Party. Nevertheless the Revolution of 1848 had the most significant effect upon the face of the newspaper. The attitude of the journal had been continuously diverging from the official conservative standpoints. The distancing, nevertheless, was not permanent; occasionally it slowed down or began accelerating. After the Hungarian revolution the Nemzeti Ujság was the first newspaper that started supporting the new regime. This radical turn was utterly striking for other journals too.