The monograph sets forth the role of liberalism in European and Slovene history in the 19th and 20th century when it, besides the role of Catholicism and Marxism, represented the third existing traditional European and political viewpoint. The author’s basic findings state that the historical development of liberalism in Slovenia did not completely overlap with the development of liberal ideas and practices in Europe. Slovene liberalism did not actively deal with social issues and, similarly, also failed to treat the issue of Slovene nationality in the first Yugoslavian state .
COBISS.SI-ID: 223543808
The monograph shows that, in the WW II, many options regarding Slovene national question were open with players on both sides of the Slovenian fence – revolutionary and counter-revolutionary. The idea of an independent Slovene state was also one of these options – however, it could not have been brought into practice due to different circumstances occurring at a domestic and international level. Only in time, there was a belief prevailing on both sides that the Yugoslavian (federal) solution was the best answer to the Slovene national question.
COBISS.SI-ID: 229902080
The monograph deals with the most extensive school system reformation ever witnessed by Slovenes. Through the reformation of the school system (1958) carried out under ideological influences posed by the Communist Association, practical work and technical disciplines gained advantage over intellectual work and the Humanities. Special significance of the monograph lies in its explanation of ideological interference of the Communist Association with education, which occurred in the second half of the 20th century, by showing the influence of a system, which was based on political monism.
COBISS.SI-ID: 230003968
The monograph addresses the role and position of the strongest political party in the Kingdom of Serbs, Slovenes and Croats/Yugoslavia - the catholic-oriented Slovene People’s Party – from the time when the king established his dictatorship on 6 January 1929 until the moment when the SPP reassumed power in June 1935. The author persuasively showed that the Party had a significant role, even from 1931 to 1935 when Slovene liberals were in power. Furthermore, the author addresses the role which was, at that time and in the national context, actually played by the Party leader Anton Korošec.
COBISS.SI-ID: 236468224
The monograph addresses political, cultural, state-law, territorial administrative, demographic, military, economic, social and the so-called "day-to-day" development (everyday history) of the Slovene nation in its entire ethnical territory from 1848 to 1992. The monograph also covers Slovenes who lived abroad as well as the development and situation in the German, Italian and Hungarian national communities and members of other ethnical groups both in and out of the Slovene national structure or, rather, in the framework of the present-day Republic of Slovenia.
COBISS.SI-ID: 221408256