Battling Trachoma in the Prekmurje Region with the help of the Red Cross in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Yugoslavia)

The article presents a brief overview of the activities of the Red Cross in Slovenia and in the Prekmurje region before and during the First World War and at the time of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes/Yugoslavia. Since the Prekmurje region belonged to Hungary until August 1919, the social, health and living conditions there were much worse than in other Slovenian regions. The Red Cross spent most of its time preventing the spread of the contagious eye disease trachoma. Residents were usually treated at the Prelog Eye Hospital in Međimurje County. Trachoma was finally eradicated in Prekmurje in the 1960s

The Tito-Stalin Split 70 Years After

The goal of the Zagreb conference “The Tito-Stalin Split: 70 Years Later”, Zagreb-Goli Otok, 28-30 June 2018, as well as of the papers presented, was to show not only the new interpretations and takes on the subject, but to present the Yugoslav 1948 as a global event, one that touched lives of so many people around the world. It had a very significant impact not only on politics, international relations, prisoners, army cooperation and army relations, ideology, but also cultural life and production, especially in Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. Most of the papers presented at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, which co-organized the whole event with colleagues from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, are published in this volume. A few papers were presented but the authors did not contribute the text (those were: Mark Kramer, Peter Ruggenthaler, Ondřej Vojtěchovský, Klaus Buchenau, Andreii Edemskii, Boris Stamenić, and Marie-Janine Calic). Also, one paper on China was not presented, but the text is here. We hope this volume will be an important contribution to the continuous dialogue that should be not only regional, but global. It should also be ongoing, since there is hardly an event in the history of the Cold War whose consequences were as important and as global as this one’s. (from the Preface)The book is co-published by the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences – Department of History (Postgraduate Doctoral Studies “Modern and Contemporary Croatian History In European and World Context”) & the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Arts – Department of History, as a volume 31 in the Historia series. The goal of the Zagreb conference “The Tito-Stalin Split: 70 Years Later”, Zagreb-Goli Otok, 28-30 June 2018, as well as of the papers presented, was to show not only the new interpretations and takes on the subject, but to present the Yugoslav 1948 as a global event, one that touched lives of so many people around the world. It had a very significant impact not only on politics, international relations, prisoners, army cooperation and army relations, ideology, but also cultural life and production, especially in Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union.Most of the papers presented at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, which co-organized the whole event with colleagues from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, are published in this volume. A few papers were presented but the authors did not contribute the text (those were: Mark Kramer, Peter Ruggenthaler, Ondřej Vojtěchovský, Klaus Buchenau, Andreii Edemskii, Boris Stamenić, and Marie-Janine Calic). Also, one paper on China was not presented, but the text is here. We hope this volume will be an important contribution to the continuous dialogue that should be not only regional, but global. It should also be ongoing, since there is hardly an event in the history of the Cold War whose consequences were as important and as global as this one’s. (from the Preface)The book is co-published by the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences – Department of History (Postgraduate Doctoral Studies “Modern and Contemporary Croatian History In European and World Context”) & the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Arts – Department of History, as a volume 31 in the Historia series.&nbsp

Setting the borderline between the urban and the rural in the Slovene March between 1765 and 1924

Slovenska krajina je drugo ime za današnje gornje Prekmurje, kot se pojavlja v listinskem gradivu, poročilih, časopisnih zapisih ter spominih posameznikov. Njeno največje urbano središče je bila Murska Sobota, ki je vse od konca 15. stoletja imela status trga, v naslednjih stoletjih si je konstantno prizadevala oz. obnavljala privilegije, dane od kraljevih oblasti. V kraj so gravitirali okoliški prebivalci, kljub temu je bilo zaledje s kmečkim prebivalstvom tisto, ki je identiteti kraja navzven odvzemalo status ali videz urbanega središča. Takšne interpretacije so bile značilne tako za uradne spise oz. poročila kot lokalno časopisje v 19. in 20. stoletju. Da je bila Slovenska krajina vedno podeželska, Murska Sobota pa vsaj za odtenek bolj urbana, pričajo različne faze razvoja ali potrjevanja predhodnega stanja (tako je bilo v primeru obravnave zlorabe listine o murskosoboških trških privilegijih leta 1765), vendar v razvejani mreži madžarskih naselij in glede na kategorizacijo madžarskih zgodovinarjev Murska Sobota ni uvrščena visoko na lestvici urbaniziranosti, še posebej zaradi konkurenčnih naselij, ki so gravitirala k Szombathelyju. Na tendenco k urbanosti kaže več desetletno prizadevanje za izgraditev železniške povezave s Körmendom, kar se je zgodilo šele leta 1907 ter ne nazadnje odprtje železniške proge med Mursko Soboto in slovenskim delom Kraljevine Srbov, Hrvatov in Slovencev leta 1924. Vmesno obdobje so Mursko Soboto in posledično celotno krajino zaznamovali postopni gospodarski in urbanistični premiki (poštni in telegrafski urad, hranilnica, več društev, javna knjižnica, bolnišnica), a šele dve leti po odprtju železniške proge je mesto dobilo tudi elektriko. Nejasno ali posplošeno mnenje o nerazvitosti Slovenske krajine po letu 1924 se dokaj pogosto pojavlja predvsem pri geografi h. Tovrstne stereotipne predstave niso zamrle niti po letu 1991.This article uses select examples of urban development to present the centuries-long development of Murska Sobota, which was the central spot in the so-called Slovene March (the upper part of the Prekmurje region). From the Middle Ages to the fi rst planned changes to the administration, economy, infrastructure and very structure of the town in the 18th century, Murska Sobota held the status of a borough (oppidum), but in the following decades gained the title of a rural town. A somewhat neglectful attitude of the Hungarian national (and local) authority was also refl ected in the subsequent attitude and treatment in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Sloveneswas Murska Sobota a town in the classic sense of the word or merely a partly urbanised settlement? Media reports on the Slovene March were not always appropriate or were derived from stereotypical notions, which dragged on into the post-independence period

The Tito-Stalin Split 70 Years After

The goal of the Zagreb conference “The Tito-Stalin Split: 70 Years Later”, Zagreb-Goli Otok, 28-30 June 2018, as well as of the papers presented, was to show not only the new interpretations and takes on the subject, but to present the Yugoslav 1948 as a global event, one that touched lives of so many people around the world. It had a very significant impact not only on politics, international relations, prisoners, army cooperation and army relations, ideology, but also cultural life and production, especially in Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. Most of the papers presented at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, which co-organized the whole event with colleagues from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, are published in this volume. A few papers were presented but the authors did not contribute the text (those were: Mark Kramer, Peter Ruggenthaler, Ondřej Vojtěchovský, Klaus Buchenau, Andreii Edemskii, Boris Stamenić, and Marie-Janine Calic). Also, one paper on China was not presented, but the text is here. We hope this volume will be an important contribution to the continuous dialogue that should be not only regional, but global. It should also be ongoing, since there is hardly an event in the history of the Cold War whose consequences were as important and as global as this one’s. (from the Preface)The book is co-published by the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences – Department of History (Postgraduate Doctoral Studies “Modern and Contemporary Croatian History In European and World Context”) & the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Arts – Department of History, as a volume 31 in the Historia series. The goal of the Zagreb conference “The Tito-Stalin Split: 70 Years Later”, Zagreb-Goli Otok, 28-30 June 2018, as well as of the papers presented, was to show not only the new interpretations and takes on the subject, but to present the Yugoslav 1948 as a global event, one that touched lives of so many people around the world. It had a very significant impact not only on politics, international relations, prisoners, army cooperation and army relations, ideology, but also cultural life and production, especially in Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union.Most of the papers presented at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, which co-organized the whole event with colleagues from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, are published in this volume. A few papers were presented but the authors did not contribute the text (those were: Mark Kramer, Peter Ruggenthaler, Ondřej Vojtěchovský, Klaus Buchenau, Andreii Edemskii, Boris Stamenić, and Marie-Janine Calic). Also, one paper on China was not presented, but the text is here. We hope this volume will be an important contribution to the continuous dialogue that should be not only regional, but global. It should also be ongoing, since there is hardly an event in the history of the Cold War whose consequences were as important and as global as this one’s. (from the Preface)The book is co-published by the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences – Department of History (Postgraduate Doctoral Studies “Modern and Contemporary Croatian History In European and World Context”) & the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Arts – Department of History, as a volume 31 in the Historia series.&nbsp