Polish Republic

Polish Republic may refer to:

  • First Polish Republic: applied in hindsight to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, an elective monarchy also called Noble Republic. See also Rzeczpospolita, Constitution of May 3, 1791
  • Second Polish Republic: the name applied to the Republic of Poland between World War I and World War II
  • Polish People's Republic: the official name of Poland from 1952 to 1989, under communist control since 1944
  • Third Polish Republic: the current state of Poland, since 1990

Famous quotes containing the words polish and/or republic:

    “Use the stones of another hill to polish your own jade.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “Jean Jacques Rousseau ... is nothing but a fool in my eyes when he takes it upon himself to criticise society; he did not understand it, and approached it with the heart of an upstart flunkey.... For all his preaching a Republic and the overthrow of monarchical titles, the upstart is mad with joy if a Duke alters the course of his after-dinner stroll to accompany one of his friends.”
    —Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)