The Slovene Inter-War State-Building: From Existential Fear to Seeking Opportunities
The Slovene Inter-War State-Building: From Existential Fear to Seeking Opportunities

Summary/Abstract: The restoring of the Slovenian state-building has begun in August 1918, passed through four windows of opportunity and remained unfinished in the context of the planned dismemberment of Slovenian lands between Italy, Germany, Hungary and Croatia in 1941. The incompleteness of this process was due to the indecision of the Slovenian national-political program, the split of the Slovene politicum on the trends of Yugoslavism and “Sloveneness”, which was rooted in the confidence of the Slovene people in their “non-historicity”. The state-building process has restored in the most part of the Slovenian lands, which became part of the state of Yugoslavia, common with related Slavic peoples. The windows of opportunity of the state-building process show its wavering character: it was restored and accelerated in times of internal political chaos – the collapse of multinational states within which the Slovenian people lived, in conditions of the increasing external threat across the Slovenian northern borders with Italy, Austria and Hungary. Thus, in the conditions of a stable existence in multinational states with an authoritarian regime, the process of Slovenian state-building slowed down.

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