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Russia's Road to Modernity (Paperback)
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Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe was a "Baron Munchausen
syndrome" - a venture similar to that of a fairytale personage who
boasted to be able to lift himself up by grabbing hold of his own
hair. Post-communist transition still involves social, cultural,
and political engineering, since fundamentally it is a transition
to modern society in the conditions of an assertive and sometimes
forceful presence of ready-made Western institutional and cultural
formats. Such is the challenge facing Russia in the epoch of
globalisation. Russia's Road to Modernity looks at Russian social
change through the prism of modernisation theory. It singles out
Russia's modern traits, traditional traits, and the mergers of the
two. By doing this, the book tries to answer the questions about
Russia's place among other nations, in what way she is different
from other countries, and whether she is unique in the sense some
of Russian intellectuals have claimed her to be. The conclusions
drawn may be of interest not only to Russia scholars, but also to
those who study any country undergoing rapid modernization, like
post-communist countries or newly democratic Arab societies. The
overall conceptual framework applied in this research allows, in
author's view, to illuminate some basic issues, relating to how a
comparatively closed society opens up to the world under the
influence of the more advanced societies, which it aspires to
emulate. Publisher's website: http: //sbpra.com/JerzyGierus
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