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The works gathered together here have all been written since World War II. They offer a unique opportunity to see and understand the development, nature, and main characteristics of Slavic creative writing in our time.
For more than 1,300 years Slovenes had lived in Eastern Europe without having a separate Slovene state, but in December of 1990, they voted for independence, or, put more appropriately, for "disassociation" from Yugoslavia. Unfortunately, Slovenia had to fight for its independence, which it did not fully achieve until 1995 after its bloody disintegration with Yugoslavia was over. Since independence, however, Slovenia has prospered; its economy is far ahead of other former communist states and in 2004 Slovenia acceded to both NATO and the European Union, the only republic of former Yugoslavia to do so. The A to Z of Slovenia covers the history of Slovenia and its struggle to gain independence from communism. This is done through a detailed chronology, an introduction, appendixes, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on some of the more significant persons, places, and events; institutions and organizations; and political, economic, social, cultural, and religious facets.
Največ zaslug za osamosvojitev slovstvene folkloristike imajo strokovnjaki iz nordijskih držav. Zaželeni cilj diahrone "finske šole" (Krohn), tj. klasične »folkloristične delovne metode« (Oslo, 1926) so bile študije o izvoru, širjenju in preoblikovanju folklornih motivov v kar največjih časovnih in prostorskih razsežnostih s čim več primerjalnega gradiva. Takoj za njo sinhrono zasnovane strukturalistične razprave (Propp, Jolles, Bogatyrev in Jakobson idr.) med seboj povezuje prizadevanje po samostojnosti in enakovrednosti sistema, ki mu, nasproti sistemu literature, tu pravimo slovstvena folklora. Čistov jo je bistveno dopolnil s teorijo komunikacije, Lihačov, Mukařovski, ...
Tretji zvezek (osebnosti s priimki na črke Ble–But) Novega Slovenskega biografskega leksikona vsebuje 277 gesel o najvidnejših slovenskih in s Slovenijo povezanih osebnosti in družin iz vseh obdobij naše zgodovine. Osebnosti smo izbrali s področij antropologije, arheologije, arhitekture, biologije, čebelarstva, ekonomije, etnologije, farmacije, filma, filozofije, fizike, geodezije, geografije, geologije, glasbe, gledališča, gospodarstva, gozdarstva, izseljenstva, jezikoslovja, krasoslovja, kulinarike, kulinarike, leksikografije, lesarstva, literature, lutkarstva, medicine, paleontologije, politike, popularne glasbe, prava, psihologije, sociologije, šolstva, športa, umetnostne zgodovine, urbanizma, veterine, zgodovine itd. Tiskano izdajo dopolnjuje spletni portal Slovenska biografija (www.slovenska-biografija.si; urednica Petra Vide Ogrin, Biblioteka SAZU).