Poland's Interwar Years: Building a Nation from Ashes

The Story of Poland: A Nation That Refused to Disappear — Fexingo History · Sep 30, 2026 · 6m · transcript

While previous episodes have covered the Commonwealth’s golden age, the tragic partitions, and the heroic resistance during World War II, Episode 251 explores the fragile, vibrant, and complex decade between them. After regaining independence in 1918 following over a century of erasure from the map, Poland faced an impossible task: stitching together three different economies, four different legal systems, and multiple ethnic groups into a single republic. We examine the life of Józef Piłsudski, the architect of this new state, and his vision of Międzymorze—a federation of Central and Eastern…