Polish Revolution and the Catholic Church, 1788-1792: A Political History

by Richard Butterwick

The Polish Revolution cast off the Russian hegemony that had kept the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth impotent for most of the eighteenth century. Before being overthrown by the armies of Catherine the Great, the Four Years' Parliament of 1788-92 passed wide-ranging reforms, culminating in Europe's first written constitution on 3 May 1791.

In some respects its policies towards the Catholic Church of both rites (Latin and Ruthenian) were more...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199250332
• ISBN13: 9780199250332
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.5"