The book Master game. Józef Piłsudski and the Rebirth of Poland by Wojciech Roszkowski has been published recently by the Polish History Museum. The 123-year experience of five Polish generations, with no state of their own under the three partitions, may have been a serious burden. But the huge task of the creation of a…
Kris Van Heuckelom is Associate Professor in Literary Theory and Cultural Studies at the University of Leuven (Belgium). His well-written and informative study Polish Migrants in European Film, investigates the long-running tradition of Polish migration, with its developments over the course of a century. The starting point lies in the partitions-era, the “Great Emigration”, when…
11 November 1918 is considered the symbolic date on which Poland regained its independence. However, the process of laying down the legal foundations of the reborn state continued for a number of years. One of the main things was to draw up a constitution. As early as February 1919, the single-chamber Legislative Sejm (parliament) elected…
