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ility was further undermined by yawning social divisions and the severe impact of the Great Depression on their underdeveloped economies. Democracy took root only in partially industrialized Czechoslovakia. Throughout the region, "the East European middle class was small" (Rostin 37). The existence of dissatisfied and oppressed ethnic minorities led to extreme nationalism, boundary disputes and irredentist claims. According to Rostin, "broken into weak and di

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