Korolev, S. A. Modernization and demodernization in the Russian history. Part 1

Abstract: The article is dedicated to the peculiarity of modernization processes in Russia from the last third of the 17th century (patriarch Nikon’s reforms) up to the first post-Soviet modernization in the 1990s. The author of the article showed that one of the main features of the Russian modernization process was the symbiotic nature of modernization/demodernization and overcoming the technological gap by the means of archaization of the political sphere and the system of social relations. In the first part of the article the author viewed such models of the Russian modernization as patriarch Nikon’s church reform, Peter’s modernization in the first quarter of the 18th century, the abolition of serfdom and corresponding reforms in the 60s of the 19th century.

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