Odjek zagrebačkih događaja iz listopada 1895. u dubrovačkim listovima Crvena Hrvatska i Dubrovnik

The last decade of the 19th century was the most turbulent period in Croatian modern history. The Croatian national idea was strongly suppressed during the reign of Károly Khuen-Héderváry. In the same period, Dalmatia was also going through a process of strong Germanization, which greatly affected its political and urban development. The year 1895 was the peak of the crisis in Croatian regions, but also in the entire Habsburg Monarchy, since the approaching visit of Emperor Francis Joseph to Zagreb on the occasion of the opening of the National Theatre caused strong anti-Hungarian and anti-Serbian protests. These protests strongly echoed in all Croatian regions, especially due to reporting of the political newspapers in Croatia and Dalmatia until the end of 1895. The protests were also analyzed in detail in Dubrovnik newspapers. This process significantly influenced the course of inter-ethnic relations between the two strongest political organizations gathered around the Croatian and Serbian national ideas. Therefore, the 1895 protests in Zagreb and the Dubrovnik newspaper reports on the course of the protests and its epilogue aggravated the inter-ethnic tensions in Dubrovnik. This paper analyzes the reports by comparing the political positions in the Dubrovnik political newspapers Crvena Hrvatska and Dubrovnik. Since these were two political newspapers, which had often entered into conflicts with each other in previous years, their textual conflicts regarding the Zagreb protests were unnoteworthy. In Crvena Hrvatska, more attention was being paid to the anti-Hungarian protests, while Dubrovnik newspaper was focusing on the anti-Serbian protests. Crvena Hrvatska defended the actions of the Croatian people because of the pressure from Hungarian politics, while Dubrovnik criticized the attitude of Croats towards Serbs in Croatia. These events both greatly influenced the further development of the Croatian national movement and further deepened the crisis in the Dual Monarchy.