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
In his paper, Dr Aleš Gabrič focuses on the the attitude the authorities showed towards scientific institutions during specific periods in Slovenia. Illustrated by the case of the main Slovenian scientific and educational institution, i.e. the University of Ljubljana, the author shows its most critical moments in the politically tense period after World War II and draws attention to the severe political pressure the University was exposed to during the war year of 1943.
COBISS.SI-ID: 3314292
Dr 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
Dr Marko Zajc deals with changes in the national discourse emerging the Slovenian media space and intellectual public in the 1980s. At that time, the Slovenians freed themselves from the Yugoslav paradigm, which led to more profound social and political changes that could be observed on all levels of daily life as well as in the political and intellectual circles.
COBISS.SI-ID: 3305076
Dr.Damijan Guštin sheds light on the question of what the European states and armies thought of as military activities and especially war, as well as on the consequent war planning with the aim of achieving their goals. This question was also a source of uncertainty, as in the European continent peace persisted for a whole generation: since the French-Prussian war in 1870 until the Balkans Wars of 1912 and 1913. Technological progress, mass production and thus declining prices of production allowed for the planning of warfare in completely different dimensions. All of this led to planning war as a temporally limited but swift and successful campaign. Decisive elements consisted of the mobilisation plan and the resulting operative »marching« plans. Due to its extent mobilisation became such a demanding military operation that it had to be planned in detail already during peacetime and in advance.
COBISS.SI-ID: 3321460