Szlovák sajtó és kormányzati sajtópolitika a nagy háború évei alatt
Slovak Press and Government Press Policy in the Years of the Great War

Summary/Abstract: The present study aimes to give an overall picture of the situation, frameworks and possibilities of Slovak press during the First World War. In the first part it characterizes the Slovak political factors both in emigration and home, in Hungary, afterwards it evaluates the leading newspapers and magazines in the last peace years (77 in Hungary, about one hundred in America). The second part analyzes the war situation. It summarizes the global consequences of warfare: rising prices, shortage of raw materials, military service of journalists and redactors as well as common political restrictions (limitation of freedom rights, censorship, suppression of given non-desired newspapers). After this it takes an overview on the strategies and solutions of the government in connection with Slovak press life: prohibitions, gaining majority ownership over the given newspapers and influencing some more conciliatory Slovak politicians in the interest of a Hungarophile orientation, pressing them to publicate articles written in loyal spirit with some limited, moderate demands, not exceeding the limits of the Nationality Law (1868). In the last part the study presents the image of Slovaks and the rule of the Hungarian state idea (i. e. of the theory of the united Hungarian political nation) both in Slovak Hungarophile newspapers and in Hungarian county weeklies. In these organs Slovaks have successively appeared as a separate nation – from an ethnic point of view – with their merits in the defense of the fatherland, and their leaders have no longer been considered as traitors, but rather as legitime representants whose duty has been to protest again the unification plans and activity of the emigration and the Czech politicians at home.

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