Revision and Prospects of New Vistas: An Opportunity for a »Different« Kind of History?

Abstract

Examined is the development of social and cultural historic aspects of the second world war in Slovenia and its role within a broader social context in the period following the intro- duction of ideological changes at the end of the 1980s. In view of the changed social priorities in the 1980s (i.e. the struggle for a different political and ideological interpretation of that period) and due to a lack of relevant methodology and systematic research this branch of historiographic research of the second world war is still relatively new. However, a number of studies on the subject, some of which have been made also by Slovene historians, try to close the existing gap.