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THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF CHANGES IN SLOVENE AGRICULTURE SINCE FEUDALISM
Jernej TURK
Črtomir ROZMAN
Karmen PAŽEK
Darja MAJKOVIČ
Sažetak
This article offers an account of farming practices in Slovenia
from the misty pre-modern period to the present. From the
feudal order onwards to the end of the 20th century, Slovene
farmers have always produced in another state or under a
foreign regime. Because of the rather long chronological sweep,
where four different economic and political systems have been in
force (Austrian-Hungarian Empire, Yugoslav Autocratic Kingdom,
Yugoslav Socialistic System and Slovenia as an independent
state), the focus of this analysis is on the real potential effects of
these fundamentally different systems on the farming structure,
performance of agriculture and peasant traditions in the country.
The objective of this manuscript is to address previously
unanswered questions about how these distinctively different
ruling entities may have affected Slovene private farmers and
agriculture in general. Albeit Slovenia has not become a
successor state to the Austrian Empire, its exposure to agricultural
reforms, laws, and practices in the Austrian Empire (from the late
eighteenth century to 1918) left their mark on Slovene
agricultural practices. This explains why farming practices
somewhat differed from those in the rest of Yugoslavia during the
entire twentieth century. It also helps us to understand better the
genuine attitude of Slovene private farmers towards the ongoing
reform of the Common Agricultural Policy and their relative
willingness in adopting its prevailing trends.
Ključne riječi
agricultural history; Slovenia; foreign ruling entities; peasant tradition; farming practices
Hrčak ID:
18927
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Datum izdavanja:
30.4.2007.
Posjeta: 2.284 *