How Sv. Pavel pri Preboldu entered socia­lism

Abstract

The author of the article deals with the developments that took place in the area of present-day municipality of Prebold during the period between 1945 and 1952, in light of the evolving people’s democracy that was established after the Communist Party’s rise to power. The main focus is on the organisation and operation of local people’s government in the form of the local people’s council. The author describes the break from previous government structures and the search for an appropriate role that local people’s government would have in administrative, political and later also economic terms. Furthermore, he also sheds light on the difficulties facing both the system of people’s democracy and people who had to live (and survive) in it. Although the development of people’s government did not end with the introduction of municipal people’s councils, with which the article concludes, it unquestionably marked the end of the initial stage of establishing people’s government, which was characterised by administrative decision-making of supreme authority.