Slovenija u predvečerje Drugog svetskog rata
Slovenia on the Eve of WWII

Author(s): Božo Repe
Subject(s): History of ideas, Political history, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije
Keywords: autonomy; banovina; unitarism; centralism; The Popular Front; Cvetković–Maček agreement; corporatism; ideological struggle; Anschluss; Tripartite agreement;
Summary/Abstract: Ideological and political split in Slovenia escalated during the second half of 1930s. Traditional political formations started falling to pieces. Bourgeois parties, including the Slovenian People’s Party lost political clout in late 1930s. They were not able to find the answers to the crisis and the war in Europe. Most Slovenian politicians believed in preservation of Yugoslavia but they looked in vain for an alternative solution in case of occupation. Eventually, this would lead them either to collaboration or to emigration. As an opposition to the defeatist policy of the bourgeois camp, a new political block under the leadership of the Communist Party emerged.

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