ABSTRACT
Slovenia was a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire for centuries, which, as far as Slovenes, Croats and the other Slav populations were concerned, never managed to solve the issue of equality of nations adequately. The process of transition by its very nature throws society into turmoil, the outcome of which will depend on that society's resources. The complacency was occasionally punctured by concerns about the possibility of the future ethnic conflicts between other ethnic groups living in Slovenia and their host nation, and about the maintenance of national identity and economic control for such a small country in the increasingly integrated European landscape. It has been implied a few times that politics in the former Yugoslavia differed considerably from the political system in Czechoslovakia. The repressive measures of the late 1940s left the Party alienated whilst facing an economic crisis.
