This article analyses the symbolic role and the meaning of the monument of Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste. It takes it as a case study to study the national (nationalistic) contamination of the local cultural landscape before the Great War. Analysing narrative practices and commemorative dynamics related to the Verdi monument in the city centre, the article concentrates on the affirmation of national ideas in the multinational context of Habsburg Trieste. It describes the reasons of its construction in 1906 and it analyses its significance in the following decades. It argues that Verdi has been one of the most powerful symbols of national exclusivism and its monument has played the role of nationalistic marker in the local cityscape.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1537620932
For the first time this book comprehensively explores the historical background of the construction of planned towns in the context of the 20th century totalitarian regimes by taking into account two newly built towns during fascism and socialism in the northern Adriatic area. Their modernist architecture, exhibiting ideological requirements of the regimes in which it was built, is addressed in the light of today’s attitude towards such heritage and its potential for the development of educational and cultural tourism. The afore-mentioned historical analysis takes into account not only the political circumstances in which the two towns were planned, constructed and developed, but also their social construction as two outstanding ideological and propagandist projects launched by the respective totalitarian regimes.
COBISS.SI-ID: 280652800
Article intends to provide an overview of concepts and ideas that have determined the movement of Slovenian political Catholicism in the 1930s following its affirmation of the authoritarian vision of (so called) “social renewal.” At the outset, it should be noted that the Slovenian political Catholicism in the 1930s drew its ideological foundation from three theoretical sources: the papal encyclicals, the ideological models that supported the authoritarian dictatorships in Austria, Portugal and other European states and lastly the theory of corporatism as enucleated by the ideology of Italian fascism.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1537492420
The extensive monograph discusses the life and political career of the prewar communist, the leader of the resistance movement during World War II, and the postwar Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito in the context of European and global history of the 20th century. Besides the importance of his character within Yugoslav internal and foreign politics, the author defines the role of his comrades and key political figures Edvard Kardelj, Aleksandar Ranković and Milovan Đilas, and describes their complex relationships and the consequences of their political decisions that determined the history of Yugoslavia as well as the development of global socialist movement.
COBISS.SI-ID: 7852012
The article analyses a rebellion that took place in 1713 in the territorially discontinued Švarcenek seigniory. Using the critical methodological approach it analyses some concepts of interrogating serfs of different age groups who played various vocational and social roles in the village community. These interrogations were compared to the first official reports on the developments in this seigniory that were drawn up by the most important officials of two provinces—Carniola and Gorizia—and the influential city of Trieste. Comparison of both sources reveals that first official reports exaggerated about the events and actions of peasants and even criminal process could not confirm all supposed criminal acts. In analysed case it was confirmed that seigniorial lord used severe measures to suppress the collective protests and approved by government with aim to discipline his serfs. With criminal verdict of leading rebels he planned to resolve juridical conflict with peasants to his benefit.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1538001860