After the Rapallo peace treaty (1920) faded away old political border. Especially after 1922 began Italian state with politics of border fascism repression towards the local population. This process caused transformation of ethnical borders and its adaptation to political one. Along with different anti-regime actions of secret Christian-socialist organisation is one of its members apparently proposed original idea to picture the »lost« ethnical border in region of national-political struggle. In book author analyses motifs of several church paintings pictured by Tone Kralj. He was author of paintings in almost 50 churches. Typical motifs of Kralj’s paintings are ideological elements as anti-fascism, irredentism and Slovenian national motifs, which are integrated in biblical narration of fresco paintings. This phenomenon “of ideological marking” is unique in Europe due to its systematic religious-pictorial cover of ethnically border area. In book author analyses phenomena of this unique border “story” in several historical and art-historical perspectives.
COBISS.SI-ID: 285626880
The article deals with the theoretical aspects of forced secularisation through the apparatus of the school system in socialist Slovenia, which took place from the beginning of the fifties, but became most strained in the 1970s. Officially, this requirement was defined as learning through a “scientific worldview” and as a precondition for full participation in a self-management socialist society. For the first time in post-war history, discussion about religious rights was held in public, especially among young Marxist sociologists and theologians, acting on behalf of League of Communists and Catholic Church. While the latter accepted so-called methodological atheism or even called for a true atheist school, they rejected forced atheisation through implanting materialist worldview into the religious children. The second problematic aspect of schools’ engagement with religion was the controversial representation of religion transmitted to the pupils through the school subject of “socio-moral education”. Although, a consensus was somehow established between Marxist humanist scholars and progressive oriented theologians on the interpretation of Marxism as the theory and practice of class struggle rather than a worldview, both controversies revealed one of the most striking deficits of Yugoslav self-management democracy. In this situation, genuine proposals made by tolerant intellectuals, who were not bound to any side, remained largely overlooked.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1538740164
For decades The Ministry for State Security (STASI) in the German Democratic Republic attentively observed Tito’s home and foreign policy in Yugoslavia, as they perceived it as a socialist experiment that could prove harmful to the Soviet-type orthodoxy, on which their own totalitarian regime was based as well. The attention did not lessen even after Tito’s death and in the context of the 1980s, the question whether Yugoslavia was capable of surviving with its economic and ethnical problems was quite noticeable. The STASI analysts based their reports on their own observations as well as on the information they received from the East and agents infi ltrated in Western political, military and espionage spheres, especially in the Federal Republic of Germany. The study of the STASI documents, therefore, off ers a global insight into the Yugoslav reality through the lenses of both blocs and shows that its complexity was never truly understood by neither side.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1539044292
The article explains Benito Mussolini’s attitude towards the Slovenian and the Croatian minority in the Venezia Giulia during the interwar period and it stresses the fact that on the ideological and propagandistic level, "Duce’s" fascist policy did not diff er from the policy of irredentism or the policy of the liberal Italy in that territory. What makes it diff erent from the earlier period is not so much the haughty approach towards the foreigners that needed to be assimilated as quickly as possible, but rather the physical violence which was used to achieve the assimilation.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1539046852
Many social practices connected to poor were a reflection of widespread fear caused by uncontrollable crowd of poor. As the female figure the poor means a danger to society. Social group of the poor people was a not a homogeneous one, it was composed of different social and professional identities according to life-cycle, gender, (un)employment, physical condition of body (old, blind, disabled, ill). Each of them represents certain degree of contamination of society because of moral, economic, visual, emotional and other danger to society. In 18th century political theory and absolute state driven by ideas of enlightenment and rationalism developed mechanisms for control the risk of contamination by the poor people, which were more sustainable but not always effective. This article focuses on the different perception of the risk of contamination by political theory, administrative tractates, and legislation as well as everyday practices of local authorities.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1538593988