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:

    “Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet’s job. The rest is literature.”
    —Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)

    “It was the most ungrateful and unjust act ever perpetrated by a republic upon a class of citizens who had worked and sacrificed and suffered as did the women of this nation in the struggle of the Civil War only to be rewarded at its close by such unspeakable degradation as to be reduced to the plane of subjects to enfranchised slaves.”
    —Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919)