The Rise of Authoritarian States
- The Crisis of Democracy throughout the 1920s and 1930s.
- The victors of the Great War wanted to plant the seeds of democracy in old and new European states.
- However, most European states became dictatorships and authoritarian states.
- In the authoritarian states totalitarian practices started becoming more common.
- Out of the new countries that emerged after the war, only Czechoslovakia and Finland could remain as democratic countries.
- All other countries transformed into authoritarian states, such as Germany.
- States like Italy, the Republic of China, Germany and the USSR were completely totalitarian.
- Some countries like Estonia were also authoritarian but to a less dramatic extent.