Jozef Pilsudski : founding father of modern Poland /

"An authoritative biography of Jozef Pilsudski, a key figure in interwar Europe regarded as the founding hero of a pluralistic and democratic modern Poland. After the first elected president was assassinated, Pilsudski lost faith in Poles' commitment to democracy, led a military coup, and...

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Váldodahkki: Zimmerman, Joshua D. (Dahkki)
Materiálatiipa: Licensed eBooks
Giella:eaŋgalasgiella
Almmustuhtton: Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard University Press 2022.
Liŋkkat:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv2kt2g3h
Sisdoallologahallan:
  • Introduction
  • Childhood and adolescence
  • Exile and romance
  • Socialist leader and conspirator
  • Into the international arena
  • Party leadership and arrest
  • An extraordinary escape and a new home in Austrian Galicia
  • Creating a party platform
  • From a Tokyo mission to the Union of Active Struggle
  • Building an armed force for independence
  • The Polish legions and the beginnings of World War I
  • An emerging national leader
  • The father of independent Poland
  • Statesman and diplomat
  • The state builder
  • From the first years of peace to the 1926 coup
  • The path to authoritarian rule
  • Poland in a changing world
  • Pilsudski's last year
  • Epliogue
  • Pilsudski family trees