After 1945, Yugoslav policy was created in the federal centre, and Slovenia and Croatia could not and were not allowed to develop closer ties; instead, their leaderships held talks with each other indirectly as participants in meetings at the state level. At the time when party 'Liberals' dominated the leaderships of the League of Communists in some republics, Slovenia and Croatia adopted similar points of view about the problems in the country and mostly supported each other in the federal bodies. The Croatian leadership started losing the support of their Slovene counterparts in 1971, when the majority of Slovenes believed that the Croatian leadership was giving in to nationalistic pressures and blamed all other parts of Yugoslavia for their problems except for their own republic. Slovenia took a very moderate position on the unrest in Croatia, and Slovene political leaders decided that their representatives in federal institutions would express their views only if called upon to do so or if required.
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After World War II a replacement of the political elites was carried out in Slovenia. At the end of World War II a large part of the pre war political elite left the Slovenian territory. Of three traditional Slovenian ideological political camps only a part of the Marxist camp, that is, the Communist Party, which took over the power, remained politically organised in Slovenia. The new authorities may have been strengthened with a few representatives of the old elite, but only temporarily and in rare cases.
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The central topic of the Slovenian history since the middle of the 19th century has been the issue of the nation, the question of the national territory, and the question of who has held the authority over this territory – the issue of statehood. For Slovenians the path to statehood and the Slovenian state started during the Spring of Nations, which took place all over Europe in the middle of the 19th century. At that point in history the first national political programme of the United Slovenia was drawn up. This was an ideal and it has never been realised in whole. Until the proclamation of the independent and sovereign state of Slovenia, Slovenians always lived in the context of other states, which determined the level of the Slovenian statehood or national rights. During the first Yugoslav state the ambitions for statehood manifested themselves as autonomist aspirations. These were replaced by the federalist goals during World War II – on both of the Slovenian political sides that fought for power during that time. The idea of the federally organised Yugoslav state, in which Slovenia would represent a federal unit, was formed. It was asserted by the liberation movement which took over the political initiative as well as power at the end of the war. The Yugoslav state was restored on the foundations established during the war, taking into account the right to the self determination of the nations (which included the right to secession), as a federal state with a different political system, in which Slovenia as a federal unit had a high level of statehood (its own constitution as well as legislative and executive bodies).
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To date the exchange of goods between the republics has remained unexplored due to the lack of statistical information (which the Yugoslav federal authorities started collecting as late as in 1966). On the basis of available archive and other documentary materials the author of the following article sheds light on the systemic characteristics of budgetary financing and loans, ways of planned market management, and forms of illegal trading. He analyses the role of Slovenia in the centralist system of food and goods supply. Slovenia as the main consumer received the required raw materials and food from the other republics in order to maintain its production and ensure regular food and goods supply for its people, and as the main producer it had to transfer the surplus industrial and agricultural production to the other republics. Like the other republics Slovenia also defended its economic interests, closing the borders in order to deter buyers from the other republics.
COBISS.SI-ID: 3004020
The concept of national economy is inseparable from the concept of state. It presupposes a large-scale and comprehensive economic system. In the second Yugoslav state the concept of national economy was introduced into economic and political vocabulary at the turn f the 1960s and remained in use until the dissolution of the state. It came into use as state centralism at the federal level was gradually abandoned and the jurisdictions were transferred to the individual republics. Between 1945 and 1991 Slovenia fulfilled the conditions for the transformation of the economy from a regional into a national economy. The 1974 constitution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia represented an important milestone in the process of decentralisation of the Yugoslav state. It set out the foundations for the confederate structure and strengthened the sovereignty of the republic. With this constitution Yugoslavia became an economic community with the single legal and economic space. Despite the fact that the foundations of the economic system and orentation of the economic flows did not support the Slovenian needs and expectations.
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