Korolev, S. A. Double Meaning of History: Fundamental Processes in Russian Government

Abstract: The article describes peculiarities of the fundamental historical processes in Russia such as modernization, colonization and globalization. The Author underline that all these processes have a very complex structure — not only because they combine numerous elements, but also because they involve numerous differently directed vectors. In accordance with this presumption, the author analyze the entire symbiotic process of modernization/de-modernization, the process of de-colonization as a inevitable product of the type of colonization which has been dominating in Russia throughout centuries as well as contradictions of globalization process from the point of view of asynchrony of their economic and socio-cultural elements.

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