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Between 1918 and 1939, the date of 11 November was increasingly regarded as the principal patriotic anniversary in Poland, marking the return of independence after more than a century. However, the Second World War interrupted this commemoration and after 1945 the Communist authorities preferred to ignore the occasion. Only since the re-establishment of a truly sovereign government has 11 November regained something of its pre-1939 importance.2
This is part of a larger study now in preparation devoted to the significance of 11 November in the formation of Polish political consciousness since 1918. I should like to thank Jadwiga M. Biskupska of Yale University for editorial assistance in the preparation of this chapter.
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See M.B. Biskupski, ‘The Militarization of the Discourse of Polish Politics and the Legion Movement of the First World War’, in David Stefancic, Armies in Exile (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005), pp. 71–101.
Halina Janowska and Tadeusz Jědruszczak, eds, Powstanie II Rzeczypospolitej: Wybór dokumentów (Warsaw: Ludowa spól´dzielnia wydawnicza, 1984), p. 440.
M.B. Biskupski, ‘Paderewski as Leader of American Polonia, 1914–1918’, Polish American Studies 18 (1) (1986), 37–56.
Marian Romeyko, Przed i po maju, 3rd edn (Warsaw: Ministerstwo Obrony Narodowej, 1967), p. 81.
Adam Ludwik Korwin-Sokol´owski, Fragmenty wspomnien´, 1910–1945 (Paris: Editions Spotkania, 1985), p. 109.
Piotr Cichoracki, Z nami jest On: Kult Marszal´ka Józefa Pil´sudskiego w Wojsku Polskim w latach 1926–1939 (Wrocl´aw: Ossolineum, 2001)
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Biskupski, M.B.B. (2007). The Invention of Modern Poland: Piłsudski and the Politics of Symbolism. In: Kirschbaum, S.J. (eds) Central European History and the European Union. Studies in Central and Eastern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230579538_8
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