Table of Contents

List of maps; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Triloyalism and the national revival; 2. Poland and the crisis of 1900–7; 3. Poland on the eve of the First World War; 4. The emergence of an independent Polish state; 5. The breakdown of parliamentary government; 6. Pilsudski in power, 1926–35; 7. Poland without Pilsudski; 8. Poland in defeat, September 1939–July 1941; 9. The ill-fated alliance, August 1941–April 1943; 10. The years of Tempest, May 1943–December 1944; 11. Post-war Poland; 12. The rise and ebb of stalinism; 13. The October turning point; 14. 'The little stabilization'; 15. The decline of Gomulka; 16. Poland under Gierek; 17. Polish society, 1945–75; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.