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The Nobility and the Making of the Hussite Revolution . By John M. Klassen. East European Monographs 47. New York: Columbia University Press, 1978. 186 pp. $12.00.

This book is a study not so much of the nobility's contribution to the Hussite Revolution (1419-1434) as of its power struggle with the monarchy in the period from the 1390s to the 1470s and the impact of the Hussite movement on this struggle. Nobles and Hussites contributed to each other's advancement although only a minority of the nobles favored Hussitism, which soon developed its revolutionary potential. Klassen might have entitled his book "The Nobility and the Unmaking of the Hussite Revolution"; at least he writes, "It took the nobility . . . fifteen years before they could isolate the radicals from the moderate Hussites so as to defeat them and reassert themselves as arbiters of the kingdom" (p. 3). Although religiously divided, "the nobility was basically unified in its class interest and thus . . . came out on top in the struggle for control of the polity" (p. 4), where it remained right up to 1620.