The Papacy, Poland, Russia and Religious Reform, 1764-8
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10083156 |
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| Authors | Jerzy Lukowski (corresponding author), J T Lukowski |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 66-94 |
| Publication date | 1988-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Ecclesiastical History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0469 • E-ISSN: 1469-7637 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022046900039075 |
| OpenAlex | W2162050640 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
The years 1764-8 form a rare unity in Polish history, distinguished by an unprecedented attempt at constitutional and economic reform on a scale not to be repeated for another two decades. The fragile nature of the reforms which accompanied the election, in September 1764, of King Stanislaw August Poniatowski (1764-95) was revealed as early as autumn 1766, when internal opponents, supported by Russia and, to a lesser degree, Prussia, imposed the first serious checks on the reformers and then proceeded to try to secure their total defeat. The tensions between reformers and conservatives, compounded by large-scale Russian military and diplomatic intervention, were to plunge Poland into ungovernability and civil war by March 1768 and to drag it inexorably towards the First Partition
Ancient history · Economic history · Intervention (counseling · Partition (number theory · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Historical and Cultural Studies of Poland · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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