In his discussion the author establishes that the bishop Rožman, who was explicitly apolitical, was completely unprepared for the occupation in 1941. Nevertheless, with his attitude the bishop Rožman – especially on the symbolic level (which was considerable in view of his moral authority) – provided the support for the realisation of the political goals of the strongest pre war political party, the Slovenian People's Party, and the Slovenian political elite headed by Dr. Marko Natlačen, which acknowledged the annexation of the Ljubljana Province to the Kingdom of Italy and thus acknowledged the hypothesis on the subjugation of the Yugoslav state. The political activities of bishop Rožman were not significantly different from the activities of the politicians in Slovenia who strived to solve the Slovenian question in the context of the so called New Order.
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The cyclical crises in the 20th century have also influenced the military subsystem. In such circumstances the military subsystem as a major user of budgetary resources would be under a twofold pressure: the diminishing resources would call for profound or even radical changes of its dimension and quality, while on the other hand the crisis would usually involve an increased security risk, which would in turn involve the increasing demands being imposed on the military system. At three points – in what is now the territory of the Republic of Slovenia – we can make out similar situations. In the 1930s the Army of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was forced to reduce military purchases and abandon some of the recruit training. In the beginning of the 1980s the Yugoslav military subsystem was forced to reduce the number of active staff by around 15 %, and economy measures were also imposed on it by the state leadership. The Slovenian version of the global economic crisis, which broke out in 2008, resulted in a radical decrease of budgetary resources (25 %) intended for the military subsystem.
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During the occupation and immediately after the war approximately 98.000 people lost their lives, which represents a loss of the population in the amount of 6.5 %. Hence Slovenia is a highly affected region in comparison with the rest of Europe. Most of these deaths were caused by the occupiers, but a certain part of them (13.500) were caused by Slovenians themselves due to mutual fighting and retaliation, i.e. in the atmosphere and practice of a civil war, which took place under the conditions of the occupation. In the months immediately after the war the new communist authorities carried out a mass retaliation against its actual and supposed opponents, causing the death of more than 15.000 people.
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Totalitarianism as a concept has come into use after 1923. At first it denoted the fascist movement in Italy, but later its meaning was extended to smilar phenomena in other countries. The concept of totalitarianism came into scientific use after World War II, when Hannah Arendt published her work The Origins of Totalitarianism. In the following decades research under the influence of the Cold War took place, often focusing on comparing the Soviet Union under Stalin and after his death, in the time of de-Stalinisation. The question of which regimes could be described as totalitarian has been asked throughout the decades, and it once again became the subject of more attention in the expert discussions after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War in the 1990s.
COBISS.SI-ID: 3104884
Basically the monograph focuses on the relations of the liberal politics to the issue of the ideological, political, social and national coexistence/cohabitation in Slovenia. On this basis it specifically deals with the problem of the political dimension of religion as well as on the electoral manifestation of the political will. Simultaneously it focuses on the liberal understanding of the social and political role of the armed forces as well as on the issue of the individual and social identity, analysed in the context of the issue of national sovereignty. The content groups dealt with by the monograph are completed with the description of the political activities of the most important Slovenian liberal politicians in the interwar period – Dr. Gregor Žerjav and Dr. Albert Kramer. Namely, their activities represented all the characteristics of the liberal politics in the Kingdom of SHS/Yugoslavia. At this time (as well as before) the liberals frequently moved away from the fundamental characteristics of the liberal outlook. However, on the basis of Žerjav's and Kramer's strong political will and skills that allowed them to rise to the top of the Yugoslav state politics, the liberals contributed to the affirmation of Slovenians as a notable political factor in the Yugoslav community at the time.
COBISS.SI-ID: 271188224