CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Mulej, Oskar |
|---|---|
| Title | VANISHING NATIONAL LIBERAL TRADITIONS Slovene "Progressive" Political Parties During the Interwar Period |
| Summary | This thesis deals with the case of Slovene progressive political parties, commonly labeled as “liberal” by Slovene historiography, during the interwar years. They are thereby being treated as the main Slovene political forces which descended from the pre-WWI national liberal tradition or were perceived as its heirs and are put into the general context of Central European political history. The main aim and purpose of this case study is to analyze the policies and stances of the observed parties and politicians in order to determine the extent they departed from the liberal course. Some possible answers to the question, whether it is still proper to speak about continuity of national liberal party tradition in the interwar Slovene politics, are thereby being indicated. Through the means of analyzing the features of progressives’ nationalism and nationality discourse, their perspectives for modernization and the models for socio-economic order which they were adopting throughout the observed era, it is shown that Slovene liberal forces were to a degree affected by the prevailing political atmosphere of interwar period. This leads to the conclusion that gradual vanishing of the national liberal tradition was indeed taking place but at the same time it did not lead to its complete disappearance. |
| Supervisor | Janowski, Maciej Ludwik |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/mulej_oskar.pdf |
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