The legacy of one of modern Poland's founding fathers, Józef Piłsudski, is one that is not only sacralized through events and namesakes throughout the country, but also a provocateur of historical scrutiny. Hailed as helping to forge Polish independence with the swords of his Legions during the Great War but later criticized if not vilified for his turn towards authoritarian tactics after the May coup of 1926, Piłsudski is perhaps the most polarizing figure in Polish history. Yet for all his notoriety in the short span of the interwar period, he continues to remain unknown in English-language histories of Eastern Europe, reduced to a mere dictator for his crackdown on parliamentarianism, alarming socialist past, and practicing what could be interpreted as a rogue diplomacy devoid of heeding to Western European leadership in foreign affairs. For the first time in practically forty years, Joshua D. Zimmerman's Jozef Pilsudski: Founding Father of...

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