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Intellectuals as the Opposition in Slovenia in the 1980s. Intelektualiści jako opozycja w Słowenii w latach osiemdziesiątych XX w.
Aleš Gabrič
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4376-6343
Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino, Ljubljana
BioALEŠ GABRIČ – Dr. in History, currently a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana. He specializes in Slovenian cultural history, political history, history of education and history of censorship, especially under the Communist regime. From 2008 to 2020 he was the President of the National Committee for History at the General Matura Examination, and since 2018 he has been President of the Slovenska matica (Slovenian Society), the oldest cultural and scientific society in Slovenia. He is the author of numerous academic articles and monographs, including Socialistična kulturna revolucija: slovenska kulturna politika 1953–1962 [The Socialist Cultural Revolution: Slovenian Cultural Politics 1953–1962], Ljubljana: Cankarjeva zal., 1995; Šolska reforma 1953–1963 [The School Reform 1953–1963], Ljubljana: Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino, 2006; V senci politike: opozicija komunistični oblasti v Sloveniji po letu 1945 [In the Shadow of Politics: Opposition to the Communist Authorities in Slovenia after 1945], Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, 2019.
Komunizm: System - Ludzie - Dokumentacja, No 14 (2025), pages: 134-157
Publication date: 2025-12-31
https://doi.org/10.48261/2299.890X.14.2025.06
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Résumé
In the search for a way out of the 1980s crisis, there were differences both between the leaders of the six Yugoslav republics, and between the authorities and their intellectual critics. In Slovenia, public criticism of the authorities emerged in the punk subculture, in magazines, books and films. Since 1982, open letters and petitions with signatures were published in newspapers, proposing changes to certain laws. Some new social movements found support in the youth organization (Union of Socialist Youth of Slovenia) and in the Slovenian Writers’ Association, so that the activities did not take place in illegal forums. In January 1985, intellectuals and people from the state structures debated both cultural and clearly political issues on a public platform for the first time. Since, in the opinion of Slovenian intellectuals, the League of Communists of Slovenia did not react strongly enough to the centralist pressure from Belgrade, they themselves organized a public tribunal on constitutional changes (1987) and the need for a new Slovenian constitution (1988). Since the Slovenian authorities did not prevent this kind of activity by the Slovenian intellectual opposition, it was criticized by other Yugoslav republics for allegedly supporting “counter-revolutionary” forces and “separatists.”
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