The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Richard Butterwick
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Richard Butterwick tells the compelling story of the last decades of one of Europes largest and least understood polities: the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Drawing on the latest research, Butterwick.

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vividly portrays the turbulence the Commonwealth experienced. Far from seeing it as a failed state, he shows the ways in which it overcame the stranglehold of Russia and briefly regained its sovereignty, the crowning success of which took place on 3 May 1791the passing of the first Constitution of modern Europe.