“Instrumental Value of Elite Memories on Past Violence during the Emergence of a New State: Slovenian Experience”

Because of their infrequency, revolutionary times possess the characteristics of quasi-experiment. The independence of Slovenia from Tito’s Yugoslavia and the emergence of the new Slovenian state (including nationwide referenda on withdrawal from Socialist Yugoslavia, in December, 1990, and the formal declaration of the new state, June, 1991) constitute an example.