Токови историје (Dec 2018)
Yugoslavism Written in Memorials and Denominations in Lјubljana
Abstract
The purpose of the article is to present a (chronological) overview of denomination, renaming or abolishing streets and squares, setting up and tearing down monuments, naming and renaming primary schools, etc. of Yugoslav connotation in Ljubljana from 1918 onwards. This kind of establishing of collective memory in Slovenia is most evident in political fractures, such as: fracturing from the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and entering the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, when it was necessary to redeϐine the collective memory and clean up the old. This is most evident in renaming streets and institutions or tearing down and putting up new monuments. Or furthermore, the more striking marking of space: the post-war regime in the time of the “second” Yugoslavia. The process was also present during the period of occupation of Slovenia between 1941 and 1945; and during the post-independence Slovenia after the year 1991.
