Richard Butterwick draws on diplomatic and political correspondence, speeches, pamphlets, sermons, pastoral letters, proclamations, records of local assemblies, and other sources to explore a volatile relationship between altar, throne, and nobility in Poland at the end of Europe's Ancien Régime. For a variety of reasons, The Polish Revolution and the Catholic Church, 17881792 -- the condensed English-language version of a 988-page Polish-language tome -- is an exceptionally important book with lessons for a wide academic audience.