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Slovenes: “a nation of owners of one of the three original European languages?”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Sergej Flere
Sergej Flere*
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Department of Sociology, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
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*Email: sergej.flere@um.si
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Abstract

The Slovene national movement of the late nineteenth century was based primarily on the myth of an eternal linguistic community, an essentialist position within historiography. The national development itself best fits into patterns described by Hroch and Gellner. Although most objective conditions for national constitution were met by 1929, it is not clear if subjective ones had been met by that time. World War II revitalized the nation-constitution process, particularly by warring Communist- and Catholic-supported political and military factions, both claiming to fight for a Slovene identity, while Communists also claimed to be fighting for a “Greater” (Megali) Slovenia. With the war's end, and Slovenia becoming a Yugoslav republic and expanding geographically, there was no doubt of a Slovene national identity, as understood by Connor, among the general population. However, important developments followed in nation-constitution after 1945, particularly upon gaining independence in 1991. The process need not be considered completed. Slovenes may be considered leaning towards a cultural type nation, with a cultural nucleus in an essentialist understanding of the Slovene language.

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Jernej Kopitarmodernismnation datingnationalism studiesSlovenes
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Nationalities Papers , Volume 46 , Issue 3 , May 2018 , pp. 441 - 457
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Copyright © 2017 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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