Includes index.

Triloyalism and the national revival -- Poland and the crisis of 1900-7 -- Poland on the eve of the first world war -- The emergence of an independent Polish state -- The breakdown of parliamentary government -- Pilsudski in power, 1926-35 -- Poland without Pilsudski -- Poland in defeat, September 1939- July 1941 -- The ill-fated alliance, August 1941- April 1943 -- The years of tempest, May 1943- December 1944 -- Post-war Poland -- The rise and ebb of stalinism -- The October turning point -- 'The little stabilization' -- The decline of Gomulka -- Poland under Gierek -- Polish society, 1945-75.