Contributions to the Slovene National Program ( sl, Prispevki za slovenski nacionalni program), also known as Nova revija 57 or 57th edition of Nova revija ( sl, 57. številka Nove revije) was a special issue of the Slovene opposition intellectual journal '' Nova revija'', published in January 1987. It contained 16 articles by non- Communist and anti-Communist dissidents in the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, discussing the possibilities and conditions for the democratization of Slovenia and the achievement of full

sovereignty Sovereignty is the defining authority within individual consciousness, social construct, or territory. Sovereignty entails hierarchy within the state, as well as external autonomy for states. In any state, sovereignty is assigned to the perso ...

. It was issued as a reaction to the

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and to the rising centralist aspirations within the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. The authors of the Contributions analyzed the different aspects of political and social conditions in

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, especially in its relations to

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

. Most of the contributors called for the establishment of a sovereign, democratic and pluralist Slovene state, although direct demands for independence were not uttered. The publication provoked a scandal throughout

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. The editors of ''Nova revija'' were called to defend themselves in a state-sponsored public discussion, organized by the

Socialist Alliance of the Working People sl, Socialistična zveza delovnega ljudstva Jugoslavije mk, Социјалистички сојуз на работниот народ на Југославија , named_after = , image = SSRNJ emblem.png , image_size ...

. The editorial board was forced to step down, but no public prosecution was conducted against any of the authors, and the journal could continue issuing without restrictions. The publications is usually considered as the direct prelude of the so-called Slovene Spring, a mass political movement for democratization that started the following year by protests against the Ljubljana trial against four journalists arrested by the Yugoslav military police. In the following years, many of the authors of the Contributions became active in the political parties of the

DEMOS coalition Democratic Opposition of Slovenia, also known as the DEMOS (in Slovenian: ''Demokratična opozicija Slovenije'') was a coalition of centre-right political parties, created by an agreement between the Slovenian Democratic Union, the Social Democrat ...

, especially the Slovene Democratic Union.

Contributions

Tine Hribar Tine Hribar (born 28 January 1941 as Velentin Hribar) is a Slovenian philosopher and public intellectual, notable for his interpretations of Heidegger and his role in the democratization of Slovenia between 1988 and 1990, known as the Slovenian ...

: ''Slovene Statehood'' * Ivan Urbančič: ''The Yugoslav "Nationalist Crisis" and the Slovenes in the Perspective of the End of Nation'' *

Dimitrij Rupel Dimitrij Rupel (born 7 April 1946) is a Slovenian politician. Early life and education Rupel was born in Ljubljana, in what was then the PR Slovenia, into a bourgeois family of former anti-fascist political emigrants from the Julian March (hi ...

: ''An Answer to the Slovene National Question'' *

Spomenka Hribar Spomenka Hribar (born 25 January 1941) is a Slovenian author, philosopher, sociologist, politician, columnist, and public intellectual. She was one of the most influential Slovenian intellectuals in the 1980s, and was frequently called "the Firs ...

: ''Avantgarde Hatred and Conciliation'' * Veljko Namorš: ''On the Use of the Slovene Language in the Yugoslav People's Army'' * Alenka Goljavšček: ''The Archaic and the Civic'' *

Jože Pučnik Jože Pučnik (9 March 1932 – 11 January 2003) was a Slovenian public intellectual, sociologist and politician. During the communist regime of Josip Broz Tito, Pučnik was one of the most outspoken Slovenian critics of dictatorship and la ...

: ''The Political System of Civil Society'' *

Gregor Tomc Gregor Tomc also known as Grega Tomc (born 3 February 1952) is a Slovenian sociologist, musician and activist. In the late 1970s and 1980s, he was the founder and member of the Slovenian punk rock band ''Pankrti''. Biography Tomc was born i ...

: ''Civil Society under the Slovene Socialism'' *

France Bučar France Bučar (2 February 1923 – 21 October 2015) was a Slovenian politician, legal expert and author. Between 1990 and 1992, he served as the first speaker of the freely elected Slovenian Parliament. He was the one to formally declare the inde ...

: ''The Legal Arrangement of the Slovenes as a Nation'' * Peter Jambrek: ''The Right of Self-Determination of the Slovene Nation'' * Janez Jerovšek: ''The Slovene University Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow'' * Veljko Rus: ''The Slovenes and an Integrative Social Policy'' * Marjan Rožanc: ''Some Irrational Dimensions'' * Jože Snoj: ''The Modern Christian and the Absurdity of Slovene Identity'' *

Drago Jančar Drago Jančar (born 13 April 1948) is a Slovenian writer, playwright and essayist. Jančar is one of the most well-known contemporary Slovene writers. In Slovenia, he is also famous for his political commentaries and civic engagement. Jančar's n ...

: ''Slovene Exile'' * Niko Grafenauer: ''Forms of Slovene Suicide''

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