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The Death of a Commonwealth: Poland's Final Partition 1795
In 1795, Poland vanished from the map of Europe, erased by three empires in a final partition that would keep the nation divided for 123 years. This episode picks up where the Constitution of 3 May 1791 left off, tracing the doomed Kosciuszko Uprising of 1794, the betrayal at Targowica, and the cold realpolitik of Catherine the Great, Frederick William II, and Francis II as they carved up the remnants of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. We focus on the little-known figure of Tadeusz Kościuszko not just as a military commander but as a radical reformer who promised land to peasants and led…
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