Multi-national states without a dominant ethnic core proved unstable in interwar Europe

Evidence

Mussolini was quite right when he wrote after the Munich crisis: “If Czechoslovakia finds herself today in what might be called a ‘delicate situation,’ it is because she was not just Czechoslovakia, but Czech-Germano-Polono-Magyaro-Rutheno-Rumano-Slovakia…” — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2490

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: German imperial thinking long rejected multi-ethnicity and pursued ethnic homogeneity — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 66