Založniška dejavnost Cankarjeve družbe (1929-1941)
Publishing Activities of the Cankarjeva Družba 1929-1941

Summary/Abstract: Founded with the aim of offerring »the Slovenian workers the right and a good book«, the activities of Cankarjeva Družba were directly linked with a socialist organisation for the promotion of culture and education known as »Svoboda« and its successor »Vzajemnost«, as well as the socialist movement on the territory of present-day Slovenia in general, in the 1929-1941 period. In the twelve years of its publishing and editorial activity the Cankarjeva Družba published an almanac with a series of articles, and three books every year. Most of the latter were translations from foreign languages or original prose works written in Slovene. The objective of its founders was for the Cankarjeva Družba to become a sort of a counterbalance to the more liberally oriented »Vodnikova Družba« that had around 20,000 subscribers in 1931, and the Catholic »Mohorjeva Družba« with almost 50,000 subscribers in the same year. The Cankarjeva Družba had about 6,000 subscribers throughout its active period, predominantly among professionally organised Slovenian workers.

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