Państwa autorytarne międzywojennej Europy jako zbiór. Uwagi wstępne

n the article author compares authoritarian systems in Europę, which were ex- istingbetween 1920 to 1938. Author shows how different those systems were in the Interwar period, existingboth in republican and monarchical political system. Authoritarianisms can be classified by different criteria: style of rule, type of leader (military, bureaucratic), position of opposition, economic system. Author notices, that for some authoritarianisms characteristic is the matter of creating a monoparty justafter coming to power by authoritarian forces: it is not po­litical party coming to power, but the power in the country is creating loyal party. Article shows, that apart from some common features, significant differences between European authoritarianisms were existing.