The history of Poland since 1863 ...

• 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