ABSTRACT
Depending on the period, area, and society, economic nationalism in the countries of East-Central Europe assumed different shapes and intensities. The proportions of the constituent parts differed as well. These were determined by external and internal conditions such as the form of statehood, national and state sovereignty or their absence, and the social and ethnic structure of the population. The 1930s brought a qualitative change in the development and expansion of nationalism, which was increasingly often put into legal and institutional frameworks and given the highest sanction. Propitious to this change were the growing authoritarian trends in the societies and states of the region and the consolidation of totalitarian rule in the countries bordering the region, notably Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union. In practice, economic nationalism meant something different to the representatives of conservative views and of more-or-less liberal views, and something else still to extreme-right movements.
