title: FROM A TRIPLE YOKE TO INDEPENDENCE
abstract: history that united the free Poland of the eighteenth century with the Polish Republic that was proclaimed in the twentieth century, only fifty years ago in November, 1918. The reborn Polish state was al most immediately confronted with a life and death struggle with the Soviet Union. Piisudski's victory at the Battle of Warsaw in 1920, in which many Polish-American volunteers took part, gave Poland and Europe a generation of peace. Independent Poland existed barely twenty-five years, of which t