Among all European countries, Slovenia experienced the most intensive activities of all three forms of totalitarianism on its territory. Because Communist rule could stay in power only through force, it was indispensably based on the use of excessive repression against its own citizens. Yugoslavia, and consequently Slovenia, remained a totalitarian state. The main support structure of Communist rule remained its political secret police. They took care that the "interior enemies" were constantly under control and that the due sanctions were taken against them in a timely manner.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 31139373In Slovenia a lot of research work on post war prosecution of the Roman Catholic Church has been carried out since 1990. The relationship concerning the formal Yugoslav state and other minor religious groups is still waiting for more profound investigations. After the year 1945 the circumstances related to pre-war traditional political parties and Catholic Church have been drastically altered. The church entered a new era when the new anti-ecclesiastic organization acquired political power. The new rulers often put personal faith and clericalism on the same level.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 31138605The monograph includes contributions about basic features of totalitarian regimes, the crimes against humanity, the basic features of revolutionary violence in the Kamniško and the Goriško region during the World War II, the mobilization into the German army, the dilemmas about the first criminal charges for post-war killings and hidden burial places, the operation of illegal groups, massive expulsions of people, the importance of the ideologically unburdened historiography, the role of the oral history, the consequences of the Slovenia's encounter with three totalitarian systems.
C.02 Editorial board of a national monograph
COBISS.SI-ID: 249116416The exhibit presents the persecution of farmers between 1945 and 1955. In April 1945 the presidency of AVNOJ adopted a law about killing the prohibited speculations and economic sabotage. What followed were compulsory purchases and deliveries of harvest, rationed supply, the law about actions against people, the agrarian reform, the establishment of cooperative societies that supported the government in implementing the agrarian policy, the expulsions of people, the process of deagrarisation and the so called kulak trials between 1949 and 1951 that mainly affected farmers.
F.28 Organising an exhibition
COBISS.SI-ID: 1454733