title: Antidote to Civil War? European ‘small states’ and political legitimacy during World War II
abstract: The experience of European small states involved in World War II varied widely. Not all of them entered the war as victims of aggression, and even those that did so did not necessarily share the same dire consequences of warfare and/or foreign occupation; they also exited the war in, sometimes dramatically diﬀerent ways: a number of small states entered the post-war period relatively peacefully, other were plunged into civil war, while a third category experienced a measure of unrest short of ci
journal: RUDN Journal of World History