Századok – 2023

2023 / 4. szám - TANULMÁNYOK - Toldi Lóránt: (Fél)polgárok hadiállapotban. Ivánka Imre volt 48-as honvédtiszt és választói az 1860-as évek elején

(FÉL)POLGÁROK HADIÁLLAPOTBAN

(HALF)CITIZENS IN STATE OF

WAR

Imre Ivánka, former

Officer of the 1848 Hungarian Revolutionary Army and his Electors in the Early 1860s

By Lóránt

Toldi

SUMMARY

In 1848 the feudal diet was replaced by a system of popular representation in Hungary. In Pest county, dominated by the liberal reformist opposition that was determined to keep the desired political direction, the electoral district of Dunapataj was organised with its centre located at the Calvinist Dunapataj in order to counterbalance the influence of the Roman Catholic archiépiscopal

seat

of Kalocsa.

The

paper explores the socio-communal

effects of the opposition that was encoded in the new location right from the start, only to present itself anew after the first phase of neo-absolutism. It also analyses the strategies that the county administrative elite used to maintain its dominance. In doing so, it pays special attention to the role of Imre

Ivánka, former

colonel of the Hungarian revolutionary army, who belonged to the political circle of Kálmán

Tisza

and was a member of the county elite, and had just started his political career that eventually took him to the Upper Chamber of the Hungarian parliament.

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