The articles collected in the scientific monograph, redress the fundamental gaps in our knowledge of the history of censorship in Slovenia over the past two centuries. They also prompt a number of questions about the role of censorship today and how it still operates. The authors approach censorship as a multifaceted social phenomenon and highlight the various types of censorship, from the most brutal repression to less overt censorship practices, and also self-censorship. The papers base their discussions on fresh research, modern methodological approaches and original reflections.
C.02 Editorial board of a national monograph
COBISS.SI-ID: 253332736In 2009, the scientific conference on histrorical and social aspects of censorship in Slovenia was organized. Experts in the fields of history, sociology, philosophy and law took part in the discussion. Both the history of censorship and its social role were addressed in detail from the perspective of the various humanities and social science disciplines. The presentations and discussions focused on the forms and methods of censorship applied in the most exposed areas of public expression, in particular in the media, in culture and in science.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
COBISS.SI-ID: 28643165On the basis of archive material and literature, the author dealt with the relation between Slovene political emigration and censorship. In the paper, he focused on analysis of the censorship of the post or letters in the period after 1945 and compared it with postal censorship in the first Yugoslavia.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 28914221The author presented the system of political censorship and the phenomenon of self-censorship in the period of Communism. From the point of view of political censorship, Yugoslav Communism was divided into two periods: the period of coarse repression and direct censorship until 1952 and the period from 1953 to the end of the 1980’s, which was typified, in addition to semi-formal forms of censorship, primarily by self-censorship, which was at the same time one of the key levers of maintaining Communist power and its long-term stability.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 2518388Following the break with the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia became more open to the West than other communist countries; hence the question of political dissent was somewhat different from the other cases found in the Eastern bloc. Nevertheless, those intellectuals in Yugoslavia who spoke out against or wrote about the communist regime felt the power of its repressive state apparatus. The paper presented two cases from Slovenia, Jože Pučnik and France Miklavčič, which the author compared to the dissent in other East European communist countries.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
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