As an expert on the field of contemporary history, Jože Pirjevec in his interview on the evening news on TV Slovenia problematized the way in which political decisions about “historical truth” are adopted in the European Union, mainly under the influence of Baltic and East European states. He stressed out diversity of historical experiences in different parts of Europe, especially about national-liberation struggle and socialism in Yugoslavia. Definitely, this regime was responsible for many victims, but nevertheless we cannot equate it with Nazism and Stalinism.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 38773037Reviewing the book “Politics of Rupture: From Partisan Politics to Socialist Transition” (Gal Kirn, 2014), Jure Ramšak presented the most common misunderstandings, which are part of public discussion on Yugoslav self-management during the transition period. He put an effort to contextualize Kirn’s interpretation of revolutionary rupture during and after the World War II on the one hand and traced political and social developments, which led Yugoslav political economy away from its revolutionary origins on the other. In this sense, he made special emphasis on the Edvard Kardelj’s claim on individual happiness as a symptom of the late socialism or in other words, transition towards “post-socialism”, which took place since the 1960s.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 1538074052Presupposing the centrality of the social transformative role, which was ascribed to the architecture and urbanism by the socialist systems, the author presented ideological discourses which characterized the construction of the new town of Nova Gorica right on the border with capitalist Italy in 1948. However, the main focus of his paper was transformation of the ideal town of socialist modernity into the isolated gambling area for Western consumers, which occurred in the 1980s and could be explained in accordance with wider shifts in Yugoslav politics and economy.
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