Slovenian Road to Democracy and its Milestones

Precis The Bachelor's Thesis "Slovenian Road to Independence and its Milestones" deals with the process of democratization and independence of Slovenia during the years 1986 to 1991. After the summary of the country development within the Habsburg monarchy and then in Yugoslavia the thesis focuses on the events after 1986 as a crucial milestone of the Slovenian road to independence. In Slovenia won in 1986 in Slovene communist party liberal wing led by Milan Kučan, advocating a democratic political system and gradual economic reforms. In Serbia became one year later the leader of the Serbian communist party Slobodan Miloševič, the propagator of the idea of Great Serbia. In Serbia thus won a conception of a centralized state based on nationalism. In this situation, it was not possible to agree on the basic functioning of the federation, let alone the future orientation of Yugoslavia. After the Yugoslav People's Army took up Serbian's quarrel and began to militarily threaten Slovenia, there had been a gradual convergence of Ljubljana government with the opposition, which culminated in January 1989 when the Slovene communist party renounced its political monopoly. Slovene communists opted for the reform course, but still advocated remaining in the Yugoslav federation. Gradually, however, even the Slovenia's..