Between revolution and legitimacy: The Croatian political movement of 1848 – 1849 and the formation of the Croatian national identity

Events during the Revolution, 1848/1849. year have also had great significance for the Croats in international relations. The Croatian name until then completely unknown to the wider European public, it was often mentioned, although mainly in a negative context, in the former European periodicals and pamphlets. The term "Croat“, mainly linked to the Habsburg" Mamluk "the servant of the reaction and oppressors advanced revolutionary aspirations. These negative stereotypes particularly affected the radical left-wing intellectuals decades later, such as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. However, the affirmation of the Croatian name as the protagonist in the European community of nations, was also a prerequisite for a positive image, which gradually emerged in the years before World War I, when the Croats had some well-known advocates among European intellectuals such as Robert W. Seton - Watson. This picture also been enhanced and the activities of certain foreign prominent Croatian national activists from Eugene Kvaternik to Stjepan Radic