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- First Page
- Title page
- Copyright and imprint information
- List of maps
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Reclaiming the Empire
- Part 1. Twentieth-century Poland: War and Cold War
- 1. Seven days that shook the world
- 2. A difficult neighbourhood
- 3. Jan Karski’s valiant failures
- 4. The worst of both worlds: Captain Witold Pilecki between Hitler and Stalin
- 5. Speaking truth to power and prejudice
- Part 2. Poland and Russia since the fall of communism: Drawing apart
- 6. Poland/Russia: Peace or ceasefire?
- 7. Heading west, heading east: Impressions from Warsaw and Moscow
- 8. Poland at the polls: A win for pragmatism
- 9. Poland’s EU presidency: Drawing the short straw
- Part 3. Turning points in Ukraine and Belarus
- 10. Ukraine: A sharp turn eastwards?
- 11. In Belarus, the leopard flaunts his spots
- Part 4. Russia and the former Soviet republics: Putinisation at home and abroad
- 12. Russia and its western neighbours: A watershed moment
- 13. Russia’s elections: Leaving little to chance
- 14. Putin’s Ceauşescu moment
- 15. Setbacks at home, successes abroad: The mixed fortunes of Vladimir Putin
- 16. Putin’s phoney war
- 17. Re-enter Putin, weakened and resentful
- 18. The real Mr Putin stands up
- 19. Towards a greater Putistan? Part 1
- 20. Towards a greater Putistan? Part 2
- 21. Will Putin survive until 2018?
- 22. Putin’s re-Sovietisation project and the Ukrainian jewel
- 23. Vladimir Putin: Geopolitical wrecking ball
- 24. Putin’s annus mirabilis
- Part 5. Putin reverts to cold war: Changing the shape of Eurasia
- 25. Putin’s last territorial demand
- 26. Ukraine: Time to cut a deal?
- 27. Russian disinformation and Western misconceptions
- 28. Putin’s parallel universe
- 29. Putin’s Westpolitik: Back to the USSR
- 30. Peace in our time
- 31. Ukraine conflict exposes Western weakness on Russia
- 32. Bling and propaganda in an ethics-free zone
- 33. Making nice and making enemies
- 34. Ukraine, out of sight
- Select bibliography
- Further reading
