Malshyna K. Рrocess of restoration of the Slovenian state-building (1918-1941 pp.)

The process of restoration of the Slovenian state-building was traced; it is proved that the incompleteness of this process was conditioned by following factors: the indecisiveness of the Slovenian national-political program, the split of the Slovenian politicians into the flows of Yugoslavism and Slovenism, which, in turn, rooted in the confidence of the Slovenes in their "non-historicity"; "windows of opportunity" of the state-building process were defined. It has shown that this process has the "wave" nature: it has recovered and accelerated in times of internal political chaos (the collapse of multinational state structures within which the Slovene people lived), in the face of the growing external threat all lengthways the Slovenian northern border (with Italy, Austria, Hungary), on that (most) part of the Slovenian lands, which became part of the state, in common with the related Slavic peoples (Croats and Serbs). Thus, under the conditions of a stable existence in the multinational states with an authoritarian regime, the process of Slovenian state building was slowing down. The state-building processes in the Slovene lands resumed as part of the State of the Slovenes, Croats and Serbs in August-December 1918. The operating forces of these processes became the political camps in Slovenia: a clerical, a liberal, and a socialist one. The formation of the first national state-administrative authorities, armed forces in the Slovene lands, the initial stage of the establishment of the state borders of Slovenia, partial international recognition makes us confirm the full autonomy of the Slovenians in the State of SHS. After the creation of the Kingdom of SHS (December 1, 1918), the essenсe of actions of the Provincial Government of Slovenia was the struggle with the central Belgrade government for the preservation of national autonomy.