Integration of the Territories of Slovakia and Slovenia into the Economic Reality of their New States in 1918 Cover Image

Vključevanje ozemlja Slovaške in Slovenije v gospodarski prostor novih držav leta 1918
Integration of the Territories of Slovakia and Slovenia into the Economic Reality of their New States in 1918

Author(s): Jure Gašparič
Subject(s): Economic history, Political history, Economic policy, International relations/trade, Economic development, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919)
Published by: Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino
Keywords: Slovenian; Slovakian; Kingdom of the SCS; economy; economic policy; economic system; national economy;

Summary/Abstract: The paper compares the process of the Slovene and the Slovak integration into their new political and economic realities after the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The economic problems of the two peoples were rooted in the fact that both Czechoslovakia and the Kingdom of SCS came into being through the unification of different cultural, political and economic environments. On the basis of the Slovene and the Slovak sources, the author presents the economic situation in Slovenia and Slovakia at the end of Austria-Hungary, transportation related difficulties on the markets of the newly founded states, as well as those arising from their non-harmonised taxation policies and the introduction of their new currencies. The paper concludes with the presentation of two basic economic orientations (the autonomist and the centralist) which took shape in Slovenia and Slovakia in answer to their economic problems.

  • Issue Year: 43/2003
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 13-25
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Slovenian