ABSTRACT
In the period between the end of World War II and its declaration of independence, Slovenia was part of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). As part of the SFRY, the transformation of Slovenia’s ownership structure had already begun during the war: 80 percent of banking and industrial properties were nationalized via confiscation (in the case of collaborators) or lockouts (for foreign owners) in 1945. In agriculture, the Law of August 23, 1945 called for the expropriation of holdings above 45 hectares and church lands in order to subdivide and redistribute small plots to the people, and also to establish state farms (Gulyás 2009, 159).
