Polish Revolution and the Catholic Church, 1788-1792

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 ...