Projects / Programmes
The political history of the slovenes in yugoslavia from 1958 to 1963
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 6.01.00 |
Humanities |
Historiography |
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| Code |
Science |
Field |
| H250 |
Humanities |
Contemporary history (since 1914) |
| H271 |
Humanities |
Political history |
Researchers (1)
| no. |
Code |
Name and surname |
Research area |
Role |
Period |
No. of publicationsNo. of publications |
| 1. |
15635 |
PhD Mateja Režek |
Historiography |
Head |
2004 - 2005 |
184 |
Organisations (1)
Abstract
The purpose of this research is to throw light on the political history of the Slovenes in Yugoslavia between 1958 and 1963. Since the planned area of study is virtually unexplored, the primary historical source will be the archive material of the highest political and state institutions. The main focus of attention will be on the softening of the party's monolithic character and the first inter-ethnic disputes in socialist Yugoslavia, disputes which then became a permanent feature of the country's political history. The second half of the fifties saw the beginning of a smoldering dispute in the Yugoslav party leadership between those in favour of federalism and relative democracy on the one hand and those who argued for centralism and hard-line policies on the other hand. At the same time, friction intensified between the more advanced and the less developed republics, and there was growing mistrust between the republic leaderships and the federal administration. This friction came out into the open in the first major strike by workers in socialist Yugoslavia at the Zasavje mines in January 1958. At that time the political leadership managed to avoid open conflict between those supporting different orientations, but not for long. The disagreements intensified, and the various interests, which were to a large extent a consequence of the inadequately settled inter-ethnic relations, clashed head-on at the beginning of the sixties, when Yugoslavia found itself on the verge of an economic and political crisis. In view of the sensitive internal political situation, the debate on the new constitution was held up, with the new constitution only being adopted in 1963. The research will be directed towards the causes and background of the political disputes, and the role of Slovene politicians within them, and will also address the question of how the political leadership and public in Slovenia responded to the actions of the federal authorities. At the same time the resultant findings will provide a logical conclusion to the researcher's doctoral dissertation, in which she dealt with Slovene and Yugoslav political history from 1948 to 1958, and will fill in the gap in Slovene political history, which separates the relatively well researched "take-over of power" in the early post-war years and the "party liberalism" of the sixties.
