L’État de l’entre-deux-guerres, ou l’histoire et la politique dans la Pologne d’aujourd’hui

A serious challenge for Polish intellectuals, opposition politicians and professional historians is the fact that the vision of Poland’s “historical destiny” brutally promoted for years by the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) government, which on the one hand idealizes and falsifies Polish history and on the other predicts a historical catastrophe awaiting Poland in the near future, may seem partially accurate with the outbreak of war in Ukraine. It is therefore worth taking a closer look at this vision and reflecting on its sources, as well as on its fate in the new political conditions.