Jerca Vodušek Starič (born 1950) is a Slovene

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

. She received a bachelor's degree in history at the Faculty of Arts of the

University of Ljubljana The University of Ljubljana ( sl, Univerza v Ljubljani, , la, Universitas Labacensis), often referred to as UL, is the oldest and largest university in Slovenia. It has approximately 39,000 enrolled students. History Beginnings Although certain ...

, a master's degree in 1979, and a PhD in 1991. Her field of expertise is Slovene and

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an history. Her focus is the government takeover by the communists in

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

after

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. Currently she is a professor of modern history at the Faculty of Arts in

Maribor Maribor ( , , , ; also known by other #Name, historical names) is the second-largest city in Slovenia and the largest city of the traditional region of Styria (Slovenia), Lower Styria. It is also the seat of the City Municipality of Maribor, th ...

. From 2005 to 2008, she was the director of the Institute of Contemporary History in

Ljubljana Ljubljana (also known by other historical names) is the capital and largest city of Slovenia. It is the country's cultural, educational, economic, political and administrative center. During antiquity, a Roman city called Emona stood in the ar ...

Publications

*Jerca Vodušek Starič, ''Začetki samoupravljanja v Sloveniji : 1949-1953''. Maribor, 1983; *Jerca Vodušek Starič, ''Prevzem oblasti 1944-1946''. Ljubljana, 1992; *Jerca Vodušek Starič, ''"Dosje" Mačkovšek''. Ljubljana, 1994. *Jerca Vodušek Starič, ''Slovenski špijoni in SOE : 1938-1942''. Ljubljana, 2002; *Jerca Vodušek Starič, ''Kako su komunisti osvojili vlast: 1944.-1946.'' Zagreb, 2006; *Jerca Vodušek Starič
"The Making of the Communist Regime in Slovenia and Yugoslavia"
in ''Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes: Reports and Proceedings of the 8 April European Public Hearing on Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes'' (ed: Peter Jambrek), pp 25–35. Ljubljana, 2008;

References

1950 births Living people University of Ljubljana alumni 20th-century Slovenian historians Academic staff of the University of Maribor Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Slovenian historians {{Slovenia-historian-stub