Liberty's Double-Edged Sword: The Liberum Veto and the Destruction of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Russian and East European Studies)

by Catherine McKenna

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Liberty's Double-Edged Sword explores one of the most famous episodes in Polish history, McKenna shows how the earliest and largest republic in Europe was brought crashing down by political leaders who cynically took advantage of the very civil liberties they should have defended.
  • ISBN10 0822965763
  • ISBN13 9780822965763
  • Publish Date 9 September 2025
  • Publish Status Forthcoming
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 296
  • Language English