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Socialni, politični in idejni značaj slovenskega liberalizma v letih 1894-1918
The Social, Political and Ideological Nature of Slovenian Liberalism in the 1894-1918 Period

Author(s): Jurij Perovšek
Subject(s): Economic history, Political history, Social history, Government/Political systems, Social development, Economic development, 19th Century, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919)
Published by: Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino
Keywords: Slovenia; liberalism; political history; 1894-1918; social and economic power; young bourgeois community; working class;

Summary/Abstract: The author discusses the social structure and the fundamental economic, social, ideological and political principles that characterised Slovenian liberalism in the period 1894-1918. He establishes-that Slovenian liberalism was interested primarily in the preservation of the social and economic power of the young bourgeois community in Slovenia from the working class. The social and political elitism of liberalism was also manifested in its anti - Catholic views expressed through its cultural struggle, which only widened the gap between the liberals and the vast masses of the Slovene people since the latter were politically mostly Catholics. Slovenian liberalism retained this character even after the year 1918; in the first Yugoslav state its traditions were drawing to a close.

  • Issue Year: 32/1992
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 3-14
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Slovenian