The Forgotten Appeasement of 1920 : Lloyd George, Lenin and Poland (Paperback)

Part 1: The dream of an independent Poland and "concepts of the world" 1. Trouble with Polish independence 2. Limits to the power (and imagination) of the winners: a view from Versailles 3. Was Piłsudski a tool in French hands? France and Poland’s Eastern policy (January ? April 1920) 4. Powerlessness: Washington respecting the Soviet Empire and the threat to Polish independence. Part 2: The Polish crisis: a short course 1. Between Lloyd George’s brand of peace and peace ? Piłsudski style (January ? April 1920) 2. The game for Ukraine (May 1920) 3. Toward the Curzon Line (June ? July 1920) 4. The Politburo’s response (July 1920) 5. Peace at any price (to Poland) Part 3: How does the imperial brain work? 1. Balfour, or shunning chaos 2. Lewis Namier, or revenge on a map (of Poland) 3. Kerr and Hankey, the two secretaries 4. The right man in the wrong place: Horace Rumbold in Warsaw 5. Lloyd George and his powerless ministers Curzon and Churchill 6. The Vox Populi and its representatives 7. The brainstorm and its "appeasement" (June ? August 1920) 8. Coda Part 4: Polish annexes and questions 1. Left hand side free: Piłsudski’s policy of appeasement 2. Questions about the Peace of Riga