Századok – 2002

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1234 TÖRTÉNETI IRODALOM 1234 A könyv az erdélyi magyar tudományosság szép teljesítménye. S kicsiben erdélyi sorstükör is. A 22 szerző, köztük a két szerkesztő hosszú éveken át, csendben dolgozott. Szerencsésebb tájon hozzá lehetett volna tenni az értékes anyag képi illusztrációját, mi által didaktikusabb, a nagyközönség számára vonzóbb kötet lett volna belőle. Ma már azt is tudjuk, hogy a számítástechnika nagy lehetőségeket kínál ebben a témában is a kutatásra és feldolgozásra egyaránt, s csak reméljük, hogy ez az értékes anyag egyszer CD-n is hozzáférhető lesz, ami az érdeklődők számára megkönynyítené és gyorsabbá tenné az adatokhoz való hozzájutást vagy csak egyszerűen a tájékozódást. Ez a kronológia így és ebben a formában is a felső- és középfokú oktatás valamint a szakmai világ számára jelent a mindennapi munkában hasznos kézikönyvet. Szász Zoltán Tisztelt Olvasó Előző számunkból — technikai okok miatt — kimaradt az idegen nyelvű összefoglaló. Ezt pótoljuk az alábbiakban. Századok szerk. SUMMARYS Aladár Urbán: A COMMITTEE FOR THE DEFENCE OF THE COUNTRY, FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF THE ORDER AND THE PEACE. The early activity of the Committee of Defence The study examines the activity of the Committee between 30 September and 7 October 1848, when Lajos Kossuth was staying east of the Danube with the aim of organising the general insurrection. The author reviews the period under consideration on a daily basis, showing how Dénes Pázmándi, chairman of the House of Representatives, informed each morning the MPs on the work of the Committee, and discussing the measures adopted on the given day. The study comes to the conclusion that the Committee was successful in increasing the Hungarian army sent against the invading Croatian troops of Jellacic, and played an important role in forcing the division, led by general Roth, which wanted to join the Croatian army, to capitulation. Gábor Erdődy: LEADING BELGIAN LIBERAL JOURNALS ON THE EVENTS IN HUNGARY IN 1848. The study attempts to reconstruct the picture of revolutionary Hungaiy in the contemporary journals which represented the attitudes of the Belgian liberal political elite, then an influential 1 segment of the European public opinion. It concludes that they aimed at getting and transmitting a true picture of the events in Hungary, and reported from the outset in detail on the problems faced by the Batthyány government and on the increasing internal tensions. They paid due attention at a fairly early stage to the roots of the Austro-Hungarian opposition, to the preparations of the Serbo-Croatian revolt, and to the negative role played by the court. In the meantime the Southern Slav problem had gradually shifted in the focus of their attention. In May and June 1848 they still unanimously condemned the revolt of Jellacic and unveiled in its background the growing activity of the counter-revolution. But the tone changed in the second half of July and an ever growing amount of criticism was directed at the Hungarian nationalism. As against the revolting nationalities, the Hungarians increasingly appeared as oppressors, whose attachment to the liberal idea of liberty was questioned. The radical forces of Pest were held as responsible for the crisis of September, and no sympathy was showed towards those who fought in defence of their unlawfully attacked constitution. From November the anti-Hungarian tone became almost predominant. The commentaries at the end of December, showing the influence of the Habsburg propaganda, stated without pity that the „Hungarian affair" had practically come to an end. Róbert Hermann: LAJOS KOSSUTH, THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF After the collapse of the revolution, in his emigration first in Turkey and later in England and the United States Kossuth devoted much attention to problems of the military science, to