The 1930s and the 1980s were both marked by major and significant social crises that would eventually usher in two different kinds of society. The crisis of the 1930s resulted in the Second World War. Its particular outcome in Slovenia and Yugoslavia was the development of a multinational federal state and socialism. The crisis of the 1980s eventually led to the disintegration of Yugoslavia, Slovenian secession and the transition to capitalism. The aim of this article is to compare these two periods. The national programme is seen as the key here. For, unlike in the 1940s, a significant portion of the social movements of the 1980s simply lacked one.
