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 anti-communist, 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
Rudolf Klinec was a priest, lawyer, historian and secretary of the Goriška Mohorjeva družba publishing company. Between the years of 1937 and 1945 he served as a priest in Velike Žablje, and was later advanced to the position of archiepiscopal chancellor in Gorica. Diary records published in the book are describing events between June 1943 and August 1945, when Klinec was spending his last days in the refugee camp at Riccione. When describing events and lives of people in his parish, as well as his viewpoints about current political affairs, the author used an explicitly personal voice.
COBISS.SI-ID: 250205696
The article provides an overview of the history of totalitarian regimes in Slovenia in the 20th century. Slovenia witnessed three totalitarian regimes: fascism, Nazism and communism. Fascism was first witnessed by Slovenes in the region of Primorska, which became part of the Kingdom of Italy after World War I. The Nazism was first witnessed by the Slovene minority in the Austrian region of Koroška in 1938; in Slovenia it was witnessed during the German occupation in 1941. The communist totalitarian regime took over Slovenia during World War II and dominated after the end of the war until 1990.
COBISS.SI-ID: 32377133
After the end of World War II, in Slovenia there were a lot of political and arranged legal proceedings against so-called »class enemies«, whereby these enemies were mostly convicted for political reasons. In these proceedings, the courts passed very high sentences. In addition to the political directives, this was also greatly supported by the organisation of the judicial system. The author writes about the activity of military courts and the Court of the Slovene National Honour (1945), the legal proceedings against the members and followers of illegal groups and against large-scale farmers.
COBISS.SI-ID: 32376877
The contribution presents the attitude of the authority towards non-Catholic religious communities on Slovene territory in the first decade after World War II, when the Communist Party tried to enforce Marxist atheist ideology, limit the influence of religious communities and control these communities. The author relies mainly on primary sources from archives and court records. She comes to the conclusion that the postwar authority systematically violated the freedom of conscience and religious beliefs. The greatest pressure on non-Catholic religious communities was exerted in 1948 in 1949.
COBISS.SI-ID: 32376621