The author analyses the turning-points in Yugoslav and Slovene modern history (the years 1918, 1928, 1948, 1968 and 1988). He explains the present situation in the state and points to the significance of the foundation of the first Yugoslav state, of the introduction of the king's dictatorship, of the pro-Nazi policy at the time of the annexation of Austria, of the Informbureau quarrel and the processes of Dachau, of the students' movement and the changes in the sphere of the constitutionally legal situation in the provinces, of the regulation of the relations among the nations and of the federalization of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia.