"Pilsudski hoped to build not merely a Polish nation state but a greater federation of peoples under the aegis of Poland which would replace Russia as the great power of Eastern Europe. Lithuania, Belorussia and Ukraine were all to be included. His plan called for a truncated and vastly reduced Russia, a plan which excluded negotiations prior to military victory." Richard K Debo, Survival and Consolidation: The Foreign Policy of Soviet Russia, 1918–1992, p. 59, McGill-Queen's Press, 1992, ISBN0-7735-0828-7.
"Pilsudski's program for a federation of independent states centered on Poland; in opposing the imperial power of both Russia and Germany it was in many ways a throwback to the romantic Mazzinian nationalism of Young Poland in the early nineteenth century." James H. Billington, Fire in the Minds of Men, p. 432, Transaction Publishers, ISBN0-7658-0471-9
"Pilsudski dreamed of drawing all the nations situated between Germany and Russia into an enormous federation in which Poland, by virtue of its size, would be the leader, while Dmowski wanted to see a unitary Polish state, in which other Slav peoples would become assimilated." Andrzej Paczkowski, The Spring Will Be Ours: Poland and the Poles from Occupation to Freedom, p. 10, Penn State Press, 2003, ISBN0-271-02308-2
Manfred F. Boemeke, Gerald D. Feldman, Elisabeth Glaser, The Treaty of Versailles: A Reassessment After 75 Years, Cambridge University Press, 1998, ISBN0-521-62132-1, p.314
A month before his death, Pilsudski told an aide: "My life is lost. I failed to create a Ukraine free of the Russians." (in Russian and Ukrainian) Oleksa Pidlutskyi, "Józef Piłsudski: The Chief who Created Himself a State", in Postati XX stolittia [Figures of the 20th century], Kyiv, 2004, ISBN966-8290-01-1, LCCN2004-440333. reprinted in Zerkalo Nedeli [Mirror Weekly], Kyiv, 3–9 February 2001, in RussianArchived 2005-11-26 at the Wayback Machine and in UkrainianArchived 2005-11-07 at the Wayback Machine.
Tadeusz Marczak, "Międzymorze wczoraj i dziśArchived 2009-03-03 at the Wayback Machine [Międzymorze Yesterday and Today], a Polish-language version of the paper, Myezhdumorye vchera i syevodnia [Międzymorze Yesterday and Today], published in Беларусь — Польша: путь к сотрудничеству (Belarus and Poland: the Path toward Cooperation. Materials of an International Scholarly Conference), Minsk, Belarus, 2005.
"The newly founded Polish state cared much more about the expansion of its borders to the east and southeast ('between the seas') than about helping the dying [Ukrainian] state of which Petlura was de facto dictator." "A Belated Idealist", Zerkalo Nedeli [Mirror Weekly], 22–28 May 2004. Available online in RussianArchived 2006-01-16 at the Wayback Machine and in UkrainianArchived 2007-03-10 at the Wayback Machine. Piłsudski is quoted to have said: "After Polish independence we will see about Poland's size." (ibid)
A month before his death, Pilsudski told an aide: "My life is lost. I failed to create a Ukraine free of the Russians." (in Russian and Ukrainian) Oleksa Pidlutskyi, "Józef Piłsudski: The Chief who Created Himself a State", in Postati XX stolittia [Figures of the 20th century], Kyiv, 2004, ISBN966-8290-01-1, LCCN2004-440333. reprinted in Zerkalo Nedeli [Mirror Weekly], Kyiv, 3–9 February 2001, in RussianArchived 2005-11-26 at the Wayback Machine and in UkrainianArchived 2005-11-07 at the Wayback Machine.
Tadeusz Marczak, "Międzymorze wczoraj i dziśArchived 2009-03-03 at the Wayback Machine [Międzymorze Yesterday and Today], a Polish-language version of the paper, Myezhdumorye vchera i syevodnia [Międzymorze Yesterday and Today], published in Беларусь — Польша: путь к сотрудничеству (Belarus and Poland: the Path toward Cooperation. Materials of an International Scholarly Conference), Minsk, Belarus, 2005.
"The newly founded Polish state cared much more about the expansion of its borders to the east and southeast ('between the seas') than about helping the dying [Ukrainian] state of which Petlura was de facto dictator." "A Belated Idealist", Zerkalo Nedeli [Mirror Weekly], 22–28 May 2004. Available online in RussianArchived 2006-01-16 at the Wayback Machine and in UkrainianArchived 2007-03-10 at the Wayback Machine. Piłsudski is quoted to have said: "After Polish independence we will see about Poland's size." (ibid)
A month before his death, Pilsudski told an aide: "My life is lost. I failed to create a Ukraine free of the Russians." (in Russian and Ukrainian) Oleksa Pidlutskyi, "Józef Piłsudski: The Chief who Created Himself a State", in Postati XX stolittia [Figures of the 20th century], Kyiv, 2004, ISBN966-8290-01-1, LCCN2004-440333. reprinted in Zerkalo Nedeli [Mirror Weekly], Kyiv, 3–9 February 2001, in RussianArchived 2005-11-26 at the Wayback Machine and in UkrainianArchived 2005-11-07 at the Wayback Machine.
"The newly founded Polish state cared much more about the expansion of its borders to the east and southeast ('between the seas') than about helping the dying [Ukrainian] state of which Petlura was de facto dictator." "A Belated Idealist", Zerkalo Nedeli [Mirror Weekly], 22–28 May 2004. Available online in RussianArchived 2006-01-16 at the Wayback Machine and in UkrainianArchived 2007-03-10 at the Wayback Machine. Piłsudski is quoted to have said: "After Polish independence we will see about Poland's size." (ibid)
A month before his death, Pilsudski told an aide: "My life is lost. I failed to create a Ukraine free of the Russians." (in Russian and Ukrainian) Oleksa Pidlutskyi, "Józef Piłsudski: The Chief who Created Himself a State", in Postati XX stolittia [Figures of the 20th century], Kyiv, 2004, ISBN966-8290-01-1, LCCN2004-440333. reprinted in Zerkalo Nedeli [Mirror Weekly], Kyiv, 3–9 February 2001, in RussianArchived 2005-11-26 at the Wayback Machine and in UkrainianArchived 2005-11-07 at the Wayback Machine.
