Janez Stanič (4 January 1937 – 28 October 1996) was a Slovene

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and

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. He was considered one of the best

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analysts of his generation and was often outspoken and critical of the

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. Stanič was born in

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in 1937. He studied Slovene and

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at the

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and graduated in 1961. He worked for the newspaper ''

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'', first as their

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and later as an editor. From 1975 he worked at the Slovene National Broadcaster and from 1991 as head of the Cankarjeva Založba publishing house. He died in Ljubljana in 1996. He won the

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in 1968 for his book ' (The Other Side of the Kremlin).

Selected published works

* ' (The Other Side of the Kremlin), 1968 * ' (The Czechoslovak Danger, Prague Spring and Prague Winter), 1969 * ' (The Known and Unknown Soviet Union), 1978 * ' (Communismns Crossroads), 1980 * ' (White Patches of Socialism), 1986 * ' (Chronicles of the Turning Point), collection of articles from 1985 to 1995), 1997

References

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