Strategy and tactics of Soviet foreign policy -- Historical background of Soviet-Polish relations: from 1917 to September to 1939 --The fourth partition of Poland -- The precarious alliance: August 1941 to April 1943 -- From the rupture of diplomatic relations to the Soviet establishment of the Lublin Committee: April 1943 to January 1944 -- The Soviets transform the Lublin Committee into the provisional government of Poland: January 1944 to December 1944 -- From the Soviet establishment of the "provisional government" to the allied recognition of it as the "provisional government" of national unity: December 1944 to June 1945 -- From the Potsdam Conference to the elections: July 17, 1945 to October 20, 1947.