The publication presents the development of the agriculture after the end of the World War II, with the emphasis on the period between 1949 and 1951 when the Communist Party after the dispute with the Informbiro in 1948 intensified its policy towards farmers. By means of the collectivization of agriculture and the founding of agricultural farming ccoperatives, the party sought to strengthen the cooperative sector and increase agricultural production. Strictly policy towards farmers led to an increase in the number of judicial processes against large-scale farmers the Kulak trials. They reached their peak between the years 1949 1nd 1951, with the courts ruling on the basis of Prevention of Unlawful Trade, Ulawful Speculation and Economic Sabotage Act and Agricultural Farming Cooperatives Basic Act. At these trials, the courts imposed more severe sentences than in the previous years withe the confiscation od property representing the strictest possible penalty. The repression of farmers started to abate in 1951, when the Party established that collectivization had not achieved the expected success. The number of Kulak trials also decreased.
COBISS.SI-ID: 264182016
The publication shows the revolutionary violence of the Region of Primorska. That is the Slovenian ethnic territory, which after the First World War belonged to Italy. This part of the Slovenian ethnic territory is the interest of both statelegal framework, different than the rest of Slovenia, as well as the specific historical development, motivated by fascist persecution and assimilation before Second World War. Political and military conditions for Communist revolution were specific in western part of Slovenia, whereas the longstanding Italian fascist pressure caused the majority of Primorska partisan movement taken as a reflection of the national dream of the liberation. Therefore, it was a different operation of the partisan movement led by the Communist Party of Slovenia. Above all, the capitulation of Italy in September 1943 did not occur here armed anticommunist, which could actively intervened in the civil war.
COBISS.SI-ID: 259602432
During the communist revolution in Upper Carniola, cases of direct revolutionary violence in 1941 and 1942 in the Kamnik region were rare and separate, and the population felt the activity of the party indirectly through the revenge of the German occupying forces for the Partisan actions. The direct violence of the party increased in the middle of 1943, especially after the capitulation of Italy in the autumn of 1943 The ideologization of the so–called national liberation movement began to intensify, which led to the increasing intensification of the civil war in the Kamnik region, reaching a climax at the end of 1943 and in the middle of 1944. One of the possible beginnings of ideological differentiation within the hitherto relatively harmonious, but quite fragile, resistance movement in the Kamnik region is the Mejač–Kvartič affair from the end of November 1943, which ended very tragically, as did the affair relating to the German shooting of Kamnik hostages in Šentvid in January 1944, among which there were many intellectuals and entrepreneurs, which the Partisan party could have prevented or at least mitigated. In short, when the German Nazi terror was more intense, the civil war, or ideologization, was not as intense, but as soon as the pressure of the German occupation was alleviated, the ideological dispute between Slovenians began to deepen, resulting in the intensification of the civil war, the constituents of which were also revolutionary violence in all possible forms, such as the forfeiture of the property of political enemies, expulsions, threats, torture, killings, etc.
COBISS.SI-ID: 259133184
Between 1945 and 1950, there were about 35 illegal groups established in Slovenia. The authority linked their establishment and activity with the activity of the Slovene military and political emigration in refugee camps in Austria and Italy. The groups were anticommunist, they used military and intelligence operations to act against the authority of the Communist Party and they strived for the return of King Peter II to Yugoslavia. The activity of these groups was also a consequence of the fear of repressive measures of the communist authority against its opponents who began to hide.
COBISS.SI-ID: 253991936
The author of the monograph deals with postwar expulsions of the Slovenian people, the issue, about which very little has been written so far. He points out that the expulsions of people were one of the repressive measures conducted in the 20th century by all three totalitarian systems on the Slovenian territory. The first victims were the Slovenes from the Primorsko region, the expulsion of which by the Italian authorities started already in the second decade of the previous century, but the expulsion of the Slovenian people was most extensive during the occupation of the Styrian and the Gorenjsko region. The expulsions continued also after the end of the World War II and the author analyses the basic features and consequences of this measure. The monograph includes documents and testimonials about the destiny of the expelled members of the German minority to Austria from the Yugoslavian republic between 1945 and 1946, about the expulsions of people from the region bordering to Austria to the Kočevsko region that started in spring 1947, and about the expulsions from the village Petišovci in the Prekmurje region between December 1948 and April 1949.
COBISS.SI-ID: 249116672