Contribution intends to provide an overview of concepts and ideas that have determined the Slovenian political Catholicism in the 1930s, following the affirmation of the authoritarian vision of (so called) “social renewal” within the movement. At the outset, it should be noted that the Slovenian political Catholicism in the 1930s drew its ideological foundation from three theoretical sources: the papal encyclicals, the ideological models that supported the authoritarian dictatorships in Austria, Portugal and other European states and lastly the theory of corporatism as enucleated by the ideology of Italian fascism.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1537492420
The article addresses comparative aspects of the influence and the application of Fascism outside Italy. It underlines the appeal of Fascist postulates and the imitation of its practices, as evolved in Italy from the first post-war years onwards. It analyses the spread of extreme right-wing and authoritarian ideas beyond political marginal social groups and their reception by Catholic political elites from the end 1920s onwards. The study is concentrated on Slovakia but its case could be used to analyse Central Europe in its whole, since it offers many parallel mechanisms with Slovenian political development. The text is based on the paper presented by the author at the international scientific conference in Rome in 2010 and it is built on material collected in the Archive of the Italian Foreign Ministry and in the State archive in Rome. With this text the author opens new questions in dialogue with the international historiography dedicated to develop the field of comparative fascist studies.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1537492164
In the article the author discusses the view of nuncio in Yugoslavia (1922–1937) Ermenegildo Pellegrinetti on the minority issues in the Julian March. Nuncio’s diary has been used as a primary source with the aim to include Pellegrinetti’s personal actions and opinion of nationalism, irredentism and “terrorism” in this borderland in the context of five events: the judicial process in Pula (1929), the First Trieste process (1930), archbishop Antun Bauer’s pastoral letter (1931) and the forced resignations of archbishop Frančišek B. Sedej (1931) and bishop Luigi Fogar (1936). If we can argue that nuncio attained considerable measure of “objectivity” in relation to national issues, he was much more biased towards the politics of the Holy See.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1538111428