International scientific conference, held on 9–10th November 2016 in Koper, dealt with the foreign policy aspects of Yugoslav crisis and the establishment of successor states. Unlike previous studies focused mostly on the period of the escalation of the Yugoslav crisis and the outbreak of wars, it was this time the focus on a longer period and wider international arena. In addition to the formation of foreign policy of independent states that emerged on the territory of ex-Yugoslavia, and the attitude of the great powers to them, the speakers also shed light on the republic's external activities, through which from the beginning of the 1980’s reflected the process of disintegration of Yugoslav Communist Party and the state by national principle. They analyzed the reception of this process by the great powers and international associations, as well as the views of smaller European countries on the Yugoslav crisis. In addition to the activities of the exposed political and diplomatic personalities, the speakers shed light on the role of paradiplomatic and transnational actors (economic and intellectual networks, secret services, media, diasporas, minorities, Catholic Church etc.), which played an important, but little known role in the background of the diplomatic action. In the final part of the conference was held a round table with former Slovenian statesmen and diplomats (Milan Kučan, Dimitrij Rupel, Zvone Dragan), who shared their experiences and individual views on the foreign policy and diplomatic events of that time, and thus contributed to the clarification of some outstanding historiographical questions of this period.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 287587840The conference was held on the 20th and 21st June 2016 in Koper. Participants at the conference presented papers regarding cultural and social dimensions of fascism in the border region of Venezia Giulia, where the “foreigners” represented the majority of the population. Participants discussed various aspects of so called "frontier fascism", particularly its architecture and architectural markings of space, propaganda among the "foreign-born", persecution of homosexuals in the border area, the relationship between fascism in and the Catholic Church, philosophical premises underlining the "frontier fascism", the representations of fascism in literature etc.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 285095680Together with J. B. Tito, Edvard Kardelj found himself in the middle of Stalin's terror in Moscow in the 1930s. Although they did not lose their faith in the “homeland of the proletariat” and Marxism, Kardelj bacame convinced that in Yugoslavia “everything would be different”. After the split with Cominform in 1948, Kardelj became one of the main heralds of the new Yugoslav political direction which was trying to find another route into socialism, different from the one enacted by Stalin in the Soviet Union and “people’s democracies” of his bloc. Even after the “normalization” of relations between Moscow and Belgrade in the mid-1950s, Kardelj continued to upgrade his idea of self-management socialism, perceived by the Soviets (especially M. Suslov) as despicable “revisionism”.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 1538331844Some members of the research programme (J. Pirjevec, E. Pelikan, B. Klabjan, D. Čeč) are members of the Board of Editors. Since the establishment in 1993, it has been enriching the historical environment with relevant contributions from internationally renowned authors. The papers are published in Slovenian, Croatian, Italian and English, as well as other world languages. The authors are established Slovenian and foreign historians who with various methodological approaches work in the fields of diplomatic, military, social, economic, cultural, political, anthropological and demographic history. The scientific journal is indexedin several international indexes: Thomson Reuters: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Elsevier B. V.: SCOPUS (NL) in European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH).
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COBISS.SI-ID: 34491648This paper on ESHSS focuses on the memorial landscape and on the on-going reinterpretations of the traumatic events of World War II in two border cities, Trieste/Trst and Koper/Capodistria. It is concentrate primarily on the first post-war years, but it will analyze continuity and change of postwar memory until the mid-1950s, when the Free Territory of Trieste has been divided between Italy and Yugoslavia and the two cities became part of Italy (Trieste) and Yugoslavia (Koper). Even if the tensions between Italy and Yugoslavia decreased in the next decades, the local Cold War period was characterized by contrasting interpretations of the past along ethnic and political/ideological premises. In this view, even the local physical landscape has been affected by contrasting memorials and it became a contemporary site of contestation. The paper will concentrate on the commemorative practices adopted by national political bodies and on the interpretation by local communities of the national memorial landscape.
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