The Great Powers and Poland: From Versailles to Yalta

Jan Karski

doi:10.5771/9781442226654

Summary

This definitive study provides a comprehensive diplomatic history of Poland during the most seminal period in its existence, when its destiny lay in the hands of France, Great Britain, and the United States. Although sovereign in principle, Poland was little more than an object of the Great Powers’ politics and rapidly changing relationships from the end of WWI to the end of WWII. Focusing on the shifting policies of the Great Powers toward Poland from the Treaty of Versailles to Yalta, the book ends with Poland’s tragic abandonment by the West into the hands of the Soviet Union. Enriched by unique anecdotal and archival material, this book will be essential reading for all those seeking to understand Poland’s role in twentieth-century history.

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Copyright year: 2014
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4422-2664-7
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4422-2665-4
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 525
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
3. Abbreviations No access
1. 1 The Polish Question during World War I No access
2. 2 The Versailles Peace Conference, January 18–June 28, 1919 No access
3. 3 The Polish-Bolshevik War and the Curzon Line No access
4. 4 Poland’s Eastern, Northern, and Southern Boundaries No access
5. 5 German-Soviet Secret Understanding, 1919–1932 No access
6. 6 Poland in the Foreign Policy of France, 1921–1932 No access
7. 7 Two-Faced Eastern Neighbor, 1921–1932 No access
8. 8 The Crucial Year, 1933 No access
9. 9 The Polish-German Declaration of Nonaggression, January 26, 1934 No access
10. 10 Franco-Polish Relations, 1933–1936 No access
11. 11 The Era of Appeasement, 1937–1938 No access
12. 12 France and Poland after the Remilitarization of the Rhineland No access
13. 13 Hitler’s Demands on Poland, October 1938–March 1939 No access
14. 14 Soviet-Polish Relations, 1934–1938 No access
15. 15 The Meaning of the British and French Guarantees, March–April 1939 No access
16. 16 Hitler’s Decision to Isolate and Crush Poland, April–August 1939 No access
17. 17 Nazi-Polish Relations and the Problem of Russia No access
18. 18 Hitler-Beck Diplomacy No access
19. 19 Anglo-French-Polish Military and Economic Agreements No access
20. 20 War and Peace in Soviet Diplomacy, 1939 No access
21. 21 The Anglo-Polish Pact of Mutual Assistance No access
22. 22 France, Great Britain, and Russia during the German-Polish Campaign No access
1. 23 Poland after Defeat No access
2. 24 The Polish-Soviet Pact of July 30, 1941 No access
3. 25 The “Four Freedoms” and the Atlantic Charter No access
4. 26 Soviet-Polish Relations, July 30, 1941–April 25, 1943 No access
5. 27 The British-Soviet Alliance of May 26, 1942 No access
6. 28 British and American Attitudes toward Poland, 1941–1943 No access
7. 29 The Tehran Conference No access
8. 30 The Entry of the Red Army into Poland, January 1944 No access
9. 31 Churchill’s Efforts to Implement the Polish “Formula” No access
10. 32 Roosevelt and the Polish Issue on the Eve of the 1944 Presidential Election Campaign No access
11. 33 The Warsaw Uprising, August 1–October 2, 1944 No access
12. 34 The Poles Entrapped in the Homeland and Abroad, August–October 1944 No access
13. 35 The Aftermath of the October Conference in Moscow No access
14. 36 Prologue to the Yalta Conference No access
15. 37 The Yalta Conference, February 4–11, 1945 No access
16. 38 The Meaning of the Yalta Agreement No access
Epilogue No access Pages 485 - 490
Bibliography No access Pages 491 - 512
Index No access Pages 513 - 524
About the Author No access Pages 525 - 525