A Nation like Lava
Neal Ascherson: Piłsudski’s Vision, 8 September 2022
Jozef Piłsudski: Founding Father of Modern Poland
by Joshua D. Zimmerman.
Harvard, 623 pp., £31.95, June,978 0 674 98427 1 Show More
by Joshua D. Zimmerman.
Harvard, 623 pp., £31.95, June,
“... Bebel mule.‘By age sixteen, in the fall of 1884, Piłsudski began to identify as a socialist,’ Joshua Zimmerman writes in his new biography. For Piłsudski and his brother, ‘the embrace of socialism reflected dual aspirations for national sovereignty and democratic society. The two concepts became inextricably linked.’ Linked – but which came ... ”
