Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER I. Early Diplomatic Contacts -- The Borderlands and Their Inhabitants -- First Diplomatic Contacts -- The Outbreak of War -- Soviet National Republics in the Borderlands -- The Więckowski Mission -- CHAPTER II. Failed Negotiations -- The Polish Offensives of 1919 -- Polish Federalism -- The Markhlevskii Missions -- CHAPTER III. Official Soviet Peace Offers -- The Polish-Latvian Offensive in Latgalia -- The First Soviet Peace Offer -- The Second Soviet Peace Offer -- Soviet Preparations for a Spring Offensive -- The Polish Peace Terms -- The Soviet Reaction -- Piłsudski's Quest for Borderlands Allies -- Soviet Countermoves -- The Polish Spring Offensive against Kiev -- CHAPTER IV. The Minsk Negotiations -- The Limited Soviet Offensive in Belarus -- Poland, Autonomous Belarus, and Allied Ukraine -- The Soviet Minor Offensive in Ukraine -- The Soviets and the Ukrainian Issue -- The Soviet Major Offensive in Belarus -- The Spa Agreement -- The Curzon Note -- Soviet Peace Treaties with Lithuania and Latvia -- The Reestablishment of Soviet Belarus -- Soviet Military Successes and Strategic Errors -- Soviet Diplomatic Delays and Peace Proposals -- The Battle of Warsaw -- The Minsk Peace Conference -- CHAPTER V. Preliminary Peace Negotiations: Difficulties -- The Battle of the Niemen -- The Instructions for the Polish Peace Delegation -- The Peace Delegations in Riga -- Soviet Preparations for the Riga Negotiations -- The Beginning of Negotiations and the VTsIK Declaration -- Ioffe's Draft of the Preliminary Peace -- CHAPTER VI. Preliminary Peace Negotiations: Breakthrough -- The First Confidential Meeting -- Polish Territorial Terms -- The Understanding of 5 October -- General Żeligowski's Capture of Wilno -- The Final Polish Offensive.

The Drafting of the Preliminary Peace Treaty and the Armistice -- The Terms of the Preliminary Peace and the Armistice -- CHAPTER VII. Definitive Peace Negotiations: Difficulties -- The Final Defeat of Poland's Ukrainian and Belarusian Allies -- The Failure of Federalism in Central Lithuania -- Recess and New Delegations -- Mutual Accusations -- Ioffe Shores Up Dąbski's Position -- The Wilno Issue: The Soviets Oppose International Involvement -- Stalemate in the Commissions and Ioffe's Frustration with Moscow -- CHAPTER VIII. Definitive Peace Negotiations: Crisis and Breakthrough -- Lithuania and Belarus: The Soviet Dilemma -- The Treatment of Prisoners of War -- Distrust and Tension -- The Gold Reserves Issue: Continued Stalemate -- The Soviet Note to Lithuania -- The Crisis of the Negotiations -- Chicherin's Struggle with the Moscow Specialists -- Continued Crisis in Riga -- The Breakthrough -- Krasin's Payment Schemes -- The Agreement on Repatriation -- Agreement on the Remaining Issues -- Moscow's Attempt to Delay the Signing -- The Definitive Peace -- CHAPTER IX. The Implementation of the Peace Treaty -- Accusations and Delays -- Repatriation -- Marking the Border -- Reevacuation of Property -- Return and Reevacuation of Cultural Treasures -- Settlement of Accounts -- The Gold Reserves Issue and Soviet Fulfillment of the Treaty -- Epilogue -- Maps -- Polish and Russian Pronunciation -- Geographical Terms -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.