Open AccessThe Student Movement 1968/1971 in Ljubljana in wider context
Author(s) -
Zdenko Čepič
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
prispevki za novejšo zgodovino
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.213
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 2463-7807
pISSN - 0353-0329
DOI - 10.51663/pnz.58.3.02
Subject(s) - politics , context (archaeology) , political science , the arts , presidential system , spring (device) , media studies , sociology , history , law , engineering , mechanical engineering , archaeology
In 1968, during the political events of this year ("Prague Spring" and its end, US presidential elections, protests against the war in Vietnam, ...) significant student protests. They were all over Europe, the most intense in Paris. They were also in Yugoslavia, in Belgrade (early June). In Ljubljana, students in their protests were more socially oriented than political. More political occurred in students' protests in Ljubljana were in April and May 1971, when the Faculty of Arts students took over for eight days. The author presents the work of students in Ljubljana in 1968 and 1971 on the basis of the documents of the Slovenian student movement.