This paper discusses the economics, politics, and ideologies that influenced Slovene literary publishing in three very dissimilar historical periods: the interwar period (Royal Yugoslavia, 1918-1945), the socialist period (Federal Yugoslavia, 1945-1991), and the democratic period (the Republic of Slovenia, from 1991). The analysis considers several groups of constraints that condition the production and circulation of books, and attempts to explain specific features of a small system that is only partly governed by market logic.
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