Revolutions devour their own children. ➡ 23 July 1920: the Bolshevik revolution is spreading westward. The Red Army’s western front, commanded by Mikhail Tukhachevsky, and the south-western one under Alexander Yegorov, are advancing, pushing Polish armies and gaining terrain. ➡ It’s not just Poland’s fate at stake but the whole of Europe’s life or death. In Warsaw, one government is about to resign, having failed to secure foreign assistance at the Spa Conference, and the next coalition cabinet to deal with the Bolshevik invasion is about to form. ➡ There’s one more executive body – on the same day, 23 July, the Bolsheviks bring Poland a brand new government, made up of Polish communists. The Political Bureau of the Bolshevik Party – Lenin, Stalin, Kamenev, Krestinsky and Trotsky – in their wisdom give it to the Poles. ➡ Polrevcom – Polish Revolutionary Committee – rules only in the captured lands, but hopes to sit in Warsaw within a couple of weeks. For the time being, Mark...