The following article presents the circumstances of the establishment of the Academy of Music in the period between 1937 and 1940, and its founding as a public institute in April 1940. The discussion ...focuses on the disputes involved in the appointment of full professors and associate professors at the newly founded educational institute.
On the basis of the Slovenian and foreign archive materials the author analyses and demonstrates the issues involved in the creation of the joint army of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ...with a special emphasis on the transfer of the former Slovenian Austro-Hungarian active and reserve officers to the joint army of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The transfer of the Slovenian officers to the joint army, established according to the model of the Serbian royal army under the command of Serbian high-ranking officers and with Serbian command and duty language, was difficult and quite unfair, treating the Slovenian officers unequally in comparison to their Serbian and Montenegrin colleagues. Many patriotic Slovenian officers were not even admitted to the joint army and they remained the responsibility of the Provincial Government, which tried to take care of them as well as it could.
The following contribution describes the formation of the attitudes towards the idea of establishing a third unit within the Habsburg Monarchy before World War I, as the issue was seen by the ...Slovenian newspapers. First the author provides an overview of the circumstances leading to the emergence of the trialist concept in the Habsburg political thought, and then he analyses the responses of the political groups in the context of dynamic developments in the Balkans. Finally he underlines the key reasons for the demise of this idea. With an emphasis on the perspective of Trieste Slovenians, the author outlines the key geopolitical dilemmas influencing the changes in the understanding of the trialist concept. As it was, trialism represented, first and foremost, an attempted Austrian manoeuvre with the aim of dealing with the shortcomings of the dualist system and reducing the power of Hungary on account of the South Slavic unit. Thus the idea was initially supported by the majority of Slovenians and Croatians, while Hungarians, Italians and Serbs were not in favour of it. The trialist concept only represented one of many battles in the political struggle of the various concepts of Yugoslavism, where the Catholic (Slovenian and Croatian) and Orthodox (Serbian) vision clashed. Furthermore, the shaping of the geographical form of the third Habsburg unit also caused disagreements at the relations between Slovenians and Croats, liberals and conservatives, as well as Primorska region (Slovenian Littoral) and Carniolan Slovenians. The failure of the trialist idea was also caused by the diminishing power of its initiators and hesitant internal harmonisation. Ultimately its realisation became impossible due to the outcome of World War I.
The article explores the student movement, which emerged at the Warsaw university and at other Polish universities in the spring of 1968. On the basis of scientific literature, memoirs and newspaper ...articles in the Delo daily newspaper and Praxis bimonthly magazine, the article sheds light on the Polish »student spring« and presents the responses to it in Slovenia and Yugoslavia. The author also analyses the consequences of the student movement, which may have not succeeded in its demands, but nevertheless influenced the political and social changes in Poland in the subsequent years.
In August 1938 a decree was issued, nationalising the Academy of Science and Arts Society in Ljubljana. The first 18 members of the Academy were elected in October 1938. This was a realisation of the ...Ljubljana intellectuals' efforts to establish a representative national institution, fulfilling the institutional conditions for the implementation of national cultural and scientific projects. The following article demonstrates the efforts for the establishment of the Academy of Science and Arts in Ljubljana in the period from 1934 to 1938 and for the provision of suitable material resources for its activities. Most attention is paid to the relations between the Slovenian intellectuals and Slovenian politicians (liberals, especially Ban Drago Marušič, until the summer of 1935, and later the politicians of the Slovenian People's Party or the Slovenian part of the Yugoslav Radical Association). The intellectuals expected the politicians to support them firmly in their efforts to obtain the state support. After the establishment of the Academy had been ensured in the spring of 1938, a struggle for the prestigious membership started among the Ljubljana intellectuals, while the politicians (the Slovenian part of the Yugoslav Radical Associations) debated the placement into the context of the successful acquisition of financial resources for the Drava Banate.
In spite of relatively short period of existence, the Manoeuvre Structures of National Protection (MSNP) presents very complex topics demanding multidisciplinary and multilevel approach. Firstly, ...from aiming and functionality points of view, their origins goes back to (self)defence activities, following Yugoslav People’s Army attempt for disarming Slovenian Territorial Defence in May 1990. Secondly, although National protection was an existing but antiquated institution, (unique to Slovenia), intended to enable the republic to form an ad hoc defence structure, akin to a Home Guard, it was a cover for secret alternative command structure and a way how new elected republic leadership tried to control TD which was formally a part of joint Yugoslav armed forces. And thirdly, MSNP presents conceptualisation of unique Slovenian defence forces, composed military (Territorial defence) and militia/police units. The article presents all hazards analysis from strategic concept till tactical realisation, combining history, politology, sociology and security theories.
The author analyses the journalistic and political work of the lawyer (attorney) and politician Ivan Dečko (1859–1908) since his studies in Graz (1879) until the establishment of his own law firm in ...Celje (1891). Already as a student he demonstrated his political talent when he started publishing critical articles in the Slovenian newspapers in the beginning of the 1880s. When he started working in Maribor in 1883, he immediately joined the Slovenian political elite there. In 1885 he moved to Celje, got a job in Josip Sernec's law firm, and visibly accelerated the Slovenian »breakthrough« in the city by the river Savinja. With thoughtful tactics he also appeared at the level of the Provincial Assembly, when he became the member of the Styrian Provincial Assembly in 1890. In 1891 he opened his own law firm. With his appeals to various appeal bodies he caused enough disturbance to make the Germans close their ranks. Under his influence the clever Slovenian politics in the beginning of the 1890s won over the rural areas completely, restricting the Lower Styrian Germans to the cities and certain towns.
