The monograph deals with key issues of democracy and nation in the Slovenian history from the beginnings of the constitutional life in the Austrian period until the death of J. B. Tito and the turbulent subsequent political decade. The aforementioned time frame was characterised by a series of different historical situations that left a decisive mark on the Slovenian national essence, which has until now not yet been comprehensively explored from the viewpoints addressed by the monograph in question. The monograph has thus established a new historiographical cognitive level while uncovering a variety of development processes in the modern era of the Slovenian history with a fresh value-based approach.
COBISS.SI-ID: 287630080
The monograph analyses the connections between the process of political democratisation in Austria with the national-political process in Lower Styria and outlines how both of these resulted in a complete national division of the population in the bourgeois century. Two processes of nationalism, mutually co-creating each other, took place in the linguistically-mixed lands. The Germans based their stance on the traditional "state of property" in the cities, claiming that the cities had always been German and that German language was the means of communication there. On the other hand, Slovenians had a somewhat easier starting point in the rural regions. The mobilisation of the population proceeded until the turn of the century, when the process of the national formation had already been completed and the population had been more or less defined according to the national principle.
COBISS.SI-ID: 287984128
The monograph represents an important novelty in the Slovenian historiography. It is turning from the traditional political historiography to the history of practice, showing how an authority, like the parliament, actually works and what is its internal logic. The logically structured chapters contain an array of parliament background situations, not merely explaining the political-historical image of the state but also analysing it internally. The findings of the study represent an important new chapter in understanding the crisis of the Yugoslavian state from the period between the two world wars.
COBISS.SI-ID: 279944704
Jurij Perovšek co-authored a comparative analysis, which deals with the development of emancipation in the Ukrainian and Slovenian nation at the end of World War I, when the Ukrainian and Slovenian people briefly demonstrated the ability to form a state but subsequently faced the impaired or problematised national life in multinational state communities. Both nations remained in those communities for a little more than seventy years and, in 1991, the experience ended the same way for both of them, i.e. with each forming its own state.
COBISS.SI-ID: 3385716