Abstract
The study comprehensively analyzes the problem of continuity and discontinuity of the interwar Czechoslovak Republic with the previous situation before 1918, when the Czech lands were part of the Habsburg monarchy. First, it analyses discontinuity elements (new geopolitical situation and international status, new political power and economic independence, partly also personal and institutional discontinuity) and continuity (legal order, administrative continuity, personal continuity, partly also institutional).
The mentalities of the population carry with them both elements. The author concluded that the revolution from which an independent Czechoslovakia was born belonged to the moderate types of revolution precisely because it was able to organically integrate many components of the old system into the new one.
The author even suggests using the analysis of continuity and discontinuity for a more general typology of modern revolutions.
