Historiography in Slovenia Today.

Slovene historiography lived through the fall of communism, the disintegration of Yugoslavia, and the independence of Slovenia without major turmoil. In 1992, Vasko Simoniti, historian of the then younger generation, published a controversial article in the central historical studies review, Zgodovinski casopis, in which he claimed that "as a rule historians [at the time of communism P. V] did not politically expose themselves," and that historical research in Slovenia (as elsewhere in Yugoslavia) after WW II was "rather one-sided and (politically) controlled." I But Bogo Grafenauer, one of the "fathers" of contemporary Slovene historiography, firmly rebuked him and in an extensive reply tried to prove that in their research, in spite of pressures, historians had always followed professional standards fairly autonomously, and so the political change and democratic reforms of 1991 did not represent a specific turning point for them.