O. KODEDOVA. Lidové hnuti a ohlas prvni ruské revoluce v ceskych zemich v letech 1905 - 1907. Praha. Academia. 1980. 160 sir. O. KODEDOVA. Popular movement and response to the first Russian Revolution in the Czech Lands in 1905-1907 To the 80th anniversary of the revolution of 1905-1907. Czechoslovak historians have made a significant contribution to the study of the first Russian Revolution of 1905 - 1907 and its impact on the workers ' and national liberation movements in the Czech Republic and Slovakia . 1 O. Kodedova, a researcher at the Institute of Czechoslovak and World History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech SSR, is known to specialists for her research in this field. Her new monograph-the fruit of many years of work on archival and statistical materials, as well as press data-is devoted to the impact of the revolution of 1905 - 1907 on the political, socio-economic and cultural development of the Czech lands that were part of the Habsburg Empire at that time. Noting that "the wave of mass movement in the Czech lands in 1905 - 1907 grew and grew stronger with the development of the revolutionary battles in Russia" and that many events in the Czech lands were "a direct response to the events of the Russian revolution" (pp. 35, 42), O. Kodedova points out that this is the most important event in the history of the Czech Republic. The largest mass popular movement in the Czech Republic (after the revolution of 1848 and before the outbreak of the First World War) had its own deep roots, as well as "its own stages and waves that followed from the internal impulses of its development" (p.41). Therefore, the pages of the monograph are read with interest, which compare the socio-economic development of Russia and Austria-Hungary in the late XIX - early XX centuries. O. Kodedova notes that the intense and strong response that the events of the first Russian revolution in the two-pronged monarchy received was based on the significant similarity of the socio-ec ... Read more