Which European countries were the most likely to descend into civil war in the interwar period?

Other than Spain, of course. Was there ever a chance that it would happen to France, or Germany?

Edit: I‘m talking about the period between the two world wars (1919-1939), and only countries that didn‘t experience civil war, of course.
 
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samcster94

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I'm aware of my nation's history that's my point, there were moments up to 32 when FF won the election.
Obviously. AFAIK, didn't FF try to abstain and complain about the legitimacy??? That seemed odd to me that political partisans who fought against a government that they didn't recognize ran it just a decade later.
 
Italy if socialist party is more aggressive

Germany if freikorp/ebert does not crush the spartacists/independent social democrats

Yugoslavia ethnic conflict
 
Obviously. AFAIK, didn't FF try to abstain and complain about the legitimacy??? That seemed odd to me that political partisans who fought against a government that they didn't recognize ran it just a decade later.

They did, but after staying in the political wilderness and seeing the state survive they wanted to get into government, hence the "empty formula" to get around the oath issue. In terms of how they did it, building up a party infrastructure while CnaG didn't (and had to make all the hard calls at the founding of the state).
 
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samcster94

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The did, but after staying in the political wilderness and seeing the state survive they wanted to get into government, hence the "empty formula" to get around the oath issue. In terms of how they did it, building up a party infrastructure while CnaG didn't (and had to make all the hard calls at the founding of the state).
Yup. I remember reading about that oath.
 
One should remember that even in Spain, a prolonged civil war seemed unlikely--it seemed more probable that if there were a military revolt, it would either succeed quickly or be crushed quickly. What happened was almost the equivalent of a flipped coin landing on its edge...
 
Perhaps Russia undergoes another civil war once Lenin dies, the Bolsheviks becoming split between Trotsky and Stalin? Or Trotsky and another influential party member?
 
most countries in Europe experienced armed conflict between November 11th 1918 and September 1st 1939

^This. Italy had the "Rose Years" with wide scale domestic conflict between the government, revolution-minded socialists/anarchists, and far-right paramilitaries, Germany had various Left-wing uprisings, an attempted paramilitary coup (Before the Beer Hall Putche) and various conflicts involving the Frekorp, Hungry had what may as well be a civil war between its Monarchists/Rightists, Republicans, and Communists, the Ottomans/Turkey had what amounted to a civil war alongside its various campaigns in the Wars of Independence (Since the rump-puppet Sultanate government used what forces it had to fight against Mustafa's faction) to give some examples. Any of these and others (I'd give a broader civil war in Italy if you don't get the Far-Center Right Coalition under Mussolini's appointment that could crack down on Socialist militancy and possibly a breakdown in the infant Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (And Bosniaks...) before it fully soldifies as your most likely options) could have exploded into full scale civil war fairly easily.
 
Hungary - better organized communist revolution ends up in full blown civil war.
Germany - same as Hungary
Romania - Hungarians refuse to accept Trianon treaty.
Yugoslavia - after assasinations of Croatian polititians in Parliament in 1928, or after assasination of king Alexander
Austria - Fatherland front vs Nazis?
Italy - king decides to crush March on Rome

There is also a small possibility for France and the UK if the social situation is much worse after the war.
Soviet Union - Stalin dies in 30s, no purges but war between various factions of party?
 
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