Twentieth Anniversary of the End of the Cold War: 1989 – 2009
Twentieth Anniversary of the End of the Cold War: 1989 – 2009

Author(s): Milan Jazbec
Subject(s): Cold-War History, Post-Communist Transformation
Published by: IFIMES Mednarodni inštitut za bližnjevzhodne in balkanske študije
Keywords: Cold War remembrance;
Summary/Abstract: Our thoughts have the ambition to reconsider, from selected aspects and in a generalized sense, what happened twenty years ago and how we look at it today. At the same time, we will reach out to different areas and here and there rely on the broader time period just indicated and try to justify the hypothesis that it is, on the one hand, a continuous, complementary and unpredictable process of change, and on the other hand, a logical historical process , which science should nevertheless understand and predict to a certain extent, since there were enough signs, as well as past experiences. The latter is all the more so if we know that Auguste Commte laid the maxim in the foundation of sociology as a science of society that its goal is to analyze in order to understand, and to understand in order to be able to predict. Last but not least, it is the same, although in a symbolic way, Prešeren also said when he wrote in the fifth gazelle, "the year begins to grow old already in the spring": when a process is at the peak of its activity, we can already perceive signs of its change in it. With this, we clearly indicated that we will also touch on the phenomenon and the city of Slovenia in this process. With all of the above, it is above all true that even at the end of our thinking we will still have more questions than answers, although perhaps still and at the same time at least a little less vague.

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