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- Preliminary pages (PDF, 0.5MB)
- List of maps (PDF, 0.1MB)
- Acknowledgements (PDF, 0.1MB)
- Introduction: Reclaiming the Empire (PDF, 0.2MB)
Part 1. Twentieth-century Poland: War and Cold War
- Seven days that shook the world (PDF, 0.1MB)
- A difficult neighbourhood (PDF, 0.1MB)
- Jan Karski’s valiant failures (PDF, 0.1MB)
- The worst of both worlds: Captain Witold Pilecki between Hitler and Stalin (PDF, 0.1MB)
- Speaking truth to power and prejudice (PDF, 0.1MB)
Part 2. Poland and Russia since the fall of communism: Drawing apart
- Poland/Russia: Peace or ceasefire? (PDF, 0.2MB)
- Heading west, heading east: Impressions from Warsaw and Moscow (PDF, 0.2MB)
- Poland at the polls: A win for pragmatism (PDF, 0.1MB)
- Poland’s EU presidency: Drawing the short straw (PDF, 0.1MB)
Part 3. Turning points in Ukraine and Belarus
Part 4. Russia and the former Soviet republics: Putinisation at home and abroad
- Russia and its western neighbours: A watershed moment (PDF, 0.2MB)
- Russia’s elections: Leaving little to chance (PDF, 0.1MB)
- Putin’s Ceauşescu moment (PDF, 0.1MB)
- Setbacks at home, successes abroad: The mixed fortunes of Vladimir Putin (PDF, 0.1MB)
- Putin’s phoney war (PDF, 0.1MB)
- Re-enter Putin, weakened and resentful (PDF, 0.1MB)
- The real Mr Putin stands up (PDF, 0.1MB)
- Towards a greater Putistan? Part 1 (PDF, 0.1MB)
- Towards a greater Putistan? Part 2 (PDF, 0.1MB)
- Will Putin survive until 2018? (PDF, 0.1MB)
- Putin’s re-Sovietisation project and the Ukrainian jewel (PDF, 0.1MB)
- Vladimir Putin: Geopolitical wrecking ball (PDF, 0.1MB)
- Putin’s annus mirabilis (PDF, 0.4MB)
Part 5. Putin reverts to cold war: Changing the shape of Eurasia
- Putin’s last territorial demand (PDF, 0.1MB)
- Ukraine: Time to cut a deal? (PDF, 0.1MB)
- Russian disinformation and Western misconceptions (PDF, 0.2MB)
- Putin’s parallel universe (PDF, 0.2MB)
- Putin’s Westpolitik: Back to the USSR (PDF, 0.2MB)
- Peace in our time (PDF, 0.2MB)
- Ukraine conflict exposes Western weakness on Russia (PDF, 0.1MB)
- Bling and propaganda in an ethics-free zone (PDF, 0.1MB)
- Making nice and making enemies (PDF, 0.1MB)
- Ukraine, out of sight (PDF, 0.1MB)