Autoritäre Regime in Ostmittel- und Südosteuropa 1919–1944

Abstract

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“Double transformations:” nation formation and democratization in interwar East Central Europe

“…The few studies addressing the processes of nation formation in East Central Europe after World War I (e.g. Zurcher 1933;Graham 1967) or the failure of democracy and the establishment of authoritarian regimes (Oberlander 1995) are merely descriptive" in nature. Even if one does not focus on the interwar period and East Central Europe, one has to acknowledge that, at least until the mid-1990s, the bulk of the literature on transitions to democracy has ignored the interlacement of processes of democratization on the one hand and nation formation on the other.…”

“…Furthermore, many of these verdicts were derived from the interpretation of the failure of the Weimar Republic (Bracher 1960;Lepsius 1978), focusing, in particular, on the rise of fascist parties in Germany and Italy (Farnetti 1978;Fritzsche 1998;Lyttelton 2000), while largely ignoring the fact that the main problems of the new democracies in East Central Europe and their path to failure were fundamentally different from these cases (Zarnowski 1983). Although the rise of authoritarian regimes has attracted interest as a research topic in recent times (Oberlander 1995;Ennker and Hein-Kircher 2010;Bauerkamper 2017), a deeper analysis of the reasons why these democracies failed is still lacking.…”