The aim of this article is to present the state of Slovenian education in the Zone A of the former Julian March before and after the signature of the Paris Peace Treaty on 10 February 1947. It draws ...on the minutes of the session held on 6 August 1946 at the headquarters of the Allied Military Government in Trieste, as this session was intended for the review of the first school year after the liberation from Nazifascism. The minutes are kept in the historical archives of the Trieste provincial office for Slovenian education and have never before been the subject of historical analysis. They reveal the school system’s main difficulties, which were the subject of a fierce clash of different political factors in the immediate post-war period. The author compares the findings obtained from these minutes with the findings of the scientific literature on the same topic. In the second part of the paper, the author discusses the changes that occurred after 15 September 1947, when the provisions of the Paris Peace Treaty came into force. He draws particular attention to the various consequences of this historic step for the Slovenian schools in Trieste and Gorizia.
The aim of this article is to present the state of Slovenian education in the Zone A of the former Julian March before and after the signature of the Paris Peace Treaty on 10 February 1947. It draws ...on the minutes of the session held on 6 August 1946 at the headquarters of the Allied Military Government in Trieste, as this session was intended for the review of the first school year after the liberation from Nazifascism. The minutes are kept in the historical archives of the Trieste provincial office for Slovenian education and have never before been the subject of historical analysis. They reveal the school system’s main difficulties, which were the subject of a fierce clash of different political factors in the immediate post-war period. The author compares the findings obtained from these minutes with the findings of the scientific literature on the same topic. In the second part of the paper, the author discusses the changes that occurred after 15 September 1947, when the provisions of the Paris Peace Treaty came into force. He draws particular attention to the various consequences of this historic step for the Slovenian schools in Trieste and Gorizia.
The purpose of this paper is to study the existing historical literature on religious and ecclesiastical situations in Venetian Slovenia in the period between 1918 and 1954. After discussing some ...methodological dilemmas, in the context of which the paper emphasises the necessity for considering the works taking a classic historiographical approach as well as written documents that deviate from these patterns in terms of their purpose or style, the paper offers the most comprehensive information on all available literature from historical novelettes and papers to more demanding monographs and discussions. Regardless of the used language medium, these works are distributed in three categories: living abroad, the central Slovenian area and the Italian-Friuli area. Along with authors, the paper also considers institutions and publishing houses which have dedicated special attention to the discussed topic, whereas the contribution of cultural institutions of Slovenes in the Venetian region as well as the Friulian Institute for the History of Liberation Movement are also emphasised. The paper emphasises the fact that in the mentioned period all three categories of writers focus on the fascist prohibition of the Slovene word from 1933 as well as its short- and long-term consequences. Historians all agree on the assessment of these events, any differences apply to the assessment of circumstances and nuances in valuing the retention of ecclesiastical authorities, especially archbishops Anastacio Rossi and Giuseppe Nogara. Here the author points out that the literal understanding of statements in archived documents of a historian can mislead the readers, which can also apply for the uncritical parallelism of events in the Venetian Church and the Church of Primorska region during fascism and WWII. In the last part the paper shows some common features of the discussed literature, whereas its expressed national and political engagement is emphasised, which can be the consequence of the fact that the national situation in Venetian Slovenia began to normalise as late as in the 1990s. It is therefore no wonder that literature on Venetian Slovenia from 1918 to 1954, except researches that base on archived sources, is mostly rich in statements of direct stakeholders, which include almost the majority of discussed writers. Among the available sources available until today, the Udine diocesan archives as well as some other parochial archives have been processed. Another source of information is also the material kept by the Central National Archives in Rome and the Archives of the Vatican Secretary of State. In the author's opinion, the task of future historians is to discuss the hitherto neglected pastoral, moral, social and cultural aspects of the discussed topic as well as national and political aspects.
