Newspaper Slovan (1884–1887) about the domestic policy of the Austro-Hungarian government and the national tasks of the Slovenes

Abstract

The article analyzes the publications of the newspaper of the Slovenian radicals and slavophiles I. Hribar and I. Tavchar Slovan, dedicated to a number of national and political problems of the Slovenes. The attitude of the radicals to the policy of the government of E. Taaffe, the provincial president A. Winkler, the activities of the Slovenian deputies of the Austrian Reichsrat and the provincial assembly of Krajna, the conflict with the elastics (primarily with F. Shukle), as well as their ideas about the tasks of the national development of the Slovenes are revealed. The radicals, grouped around the newspaper Slovan, demanded that the government put into practice the ideas of national equality, the fulfillment of Slovenian requirements in all provinces where Slovenes lived. They sought to unite Slovenian patriots in the struggle for their rights and create a common Slovenian society. Although their views were uncompromising and idealistic, and the newspaper Slovan was not particularly popular with the Slovenian public, its publications contributed to the expansion of the political and cultural horizons of the Slovenes.