Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xiii
5. Introduction: The Crisis of Sovereignty 1
6. 1. “German Brothers”: War and Migration 18
7. 2. “Now We Were the Border”: The Freikorps Baltic Campaign 45
8. 3. Socialist Pioneers on the Soviet Frontier: Ansiedlung Ost 71
9. 4. “We Who Suffered Most”: The Immigration of Germans from Poland 96
10. 5. “A Flooding of the Reich with Foreigners”: The Frustrations of Border Control 120
11. 6. Anti-Bolshevism and the Bolshevik Prisoners of War 138
12. 7. “A Firm Inner Connection to Germany”: Naturalization Policy 156
13. 8. Tolerance and Its Limits: Russians, Jews, and Asylum 171
14. Conclusion: The Legacy of Crisis 195
15. Appendix: Maps 207
16. Bibliography 211
17. Index 227