Volume contains the conceptual framework, program and summaries of the contributions presented at the international scientific conference "Border in Arms" organized by the Institute for Historical Studies of the Science and Research Centre Koper on 24-25 May 2018 in Koper. Participants from different European countries and the United States of America focused on various aspects of political violence in the North-Adriatic area between 1914 and 1941. Papers contributed to the overcoming of the dominant national-centric paradigm of violence by highlighting the role of non-state actors, political discourses and a wider European context in understanding the various aspects of violence in this territory. The papers dealt with the processes of military mobilization and demobilization, forms of military, paramilitary and police violence, and discourses that legitimized these forms of violence.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 296239360After World War I the newly acquired borderlands played a key role in the national symbolism of post-war Italy. In this paper special importance is given to the former Habsburg port-city of Trieste/Trst/Triest, where the new authorities transformed the urban space in order to rewrite the city’s history. In this multiethnic town post-war homogenization in the Italian nation provoked expulsion, marginalization and forced assimilation of non-Italian population. The local Slovene population suffered harsh discrimination and former Habsburg symbols were removed. This symbolic language is evident at several levels from toponomastics to commemorations, from architecture and monuments to modeling and shaping of the cultural landscape.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 1538820292In the radio show, the guests discussed the characteristics of anti-fascist resistance in the Littoral. The show was made on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the establishment of the anti-fascist organization TIGR. Member of the project team Dr Mateja Režek took part in the discussion; she presented the changing historical memory of TIGR from the end of the Second World War to the present day.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 1539886276The preface summarizes the attitude and policies of Benito Mussolini towards the Slovenian population. His regime has carried out a brutal policy of assimilation, all forms of resistance were to be violently broken. Italian policy towards Slovenians was succinctly expressed by Mussolini in his speech in July 1942 in Gorica, when he threatened the Slovenes with "the unyielding law of Rome." The majority of Slovenian population, therefore, received the fall of his regime with relief and delight.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 1538405572Dr Klabjan has participated in the radio program of the regional broadcaster RAI Friuli Venezia Giulia, in which he presented in a comparative perspective the role played by rascism in the period between the two world wars. He emphasized the Italian racial laws against the Jewish population. This enabled him to contextualize different forms of racial discrimination in the northern Addriatic.
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