THE AGE OF NEO-ABSOLUTISM
THE AGE OF NEO-ABSOLUTISM

Author(s): Zrinko Novosel, Vlasta Švoger
Subject(s): Cultural history, Political history, Government/Political systems, History of Education, 19th Century
Published by: Hrvatski institut za povijest
Keywords: Absolutism; Habsburg monarchy; Croatia; modernisation; educational system; culture; science;
Summary/Abstract: When the Austrian and Russian armies suppressed the Hungarian revolution with joint forces, both the Hungarians and the nations that had remained faithful to the Habsburg dynasty during the revolutionary turmoil of 1848/49 suffered a similar fate. The government in Vienna began to implement reforms in the administration, judiciary, and other areas of public life with the aim of modernizing the country and creating a single centralized state, which was accompanied by Germanization. Of the achievements of the revolution of 1848, only the abolition of the feudal system, equality before the law, and universal taxation remained in force. Words of the eminent Croatian politician, writer, and natural scientist Ljudevit Vukotinović, published in 1851 in his booklet Godina 1850 u Hèrvatskoj i Slavoniji (The Year 1850 in Croatia and Slavonia), can be cited as an illustration of how the Croats experienced Viennese centralization, which proved to be only the first step towards absolutism...

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