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Russian Modernization: A New Paradigm
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Kivinen M., Maslovskiy M.
Building on contemporary social science, we intend to go beyond current Russian studies by creating a new paradigm in the field. In this chapter, we develop the conceptual starting points of this new paradigm and specify our methodological approach to modernity and modernization. We intend to show that Anthony Giddens’ structuration theory gives us instruments for methodological specifications that broaden the horizon towards more comprehensive research programmes. Previous approaches do not seem to find ways to examine both structures and agencies at the same time. Russia’s development is explained either as an inevitable structural process, or only as a result of the intentions of the actors. We argue that it is essential to be able to study modernization both as a representation and as a broader analytical category referring to basic structural challenges.
Sizova I., Вестник Томского государственного университета. Культурология и искусствоведение 2026 № 61 С. 216–227
Modernization of a museum involves conceptual, structural, and technological changes that adapt it to its environment and to the future. Nevertheless, modernizing museums is not an easy process, so the study focused on identifying the reasons why this is happening. An ICOM Russia and Union of Museums of Russia survey was conducted in order to ...
Added: March 30, 2026
Musaev A. U., Вопросы экономики 2026 № 3 С. 87–105
This article examines industrial employment as an independent channel for the influence of economic structure on values. Unlike Inglehart and Welzel’s cultural theory of modernization, which focuses on GDP growth and existential security, we propose an additional, organizational-logical channel for the influence of economic change on cultural change, linked to the micro-contexts of the workplace. ...
Added: March 12, 2026
Urinson Y. M., Бизнес. Общество. Власть 2025 № 2 (56) С. 53–66
The article, written following the results of the master class, shows the dependence of the pace and proportions of socio-economic development of the country on its resource availability. But, according to the author, for the normal functioning of a market economy, an optimal level of trust in society is needed. Public trust significantly reduces transaction ...
Added: March 2, 2026
Musaev A. U., Vorchik A., / Series Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2026.
This paper attempts to model the evolutionary theory of modernization and democratization. The model reflects the key provisions of R. Inglehart and C. Welzel's theory and provides a microfoundation for the adaptation of subjective values to the objective importances of the survival factors and the structure of the labour markets from the perspective of evolutionary ...
Added: February 10, 2026
Evgeny A. Kanaev, Ivanov M., Southeast Asia: Actual Problems of Development 2025 Vol. 4 No. 4(69) P. 146–158
The article analyses the specifics of equipping government-business dialogue in Singapore with digital tools from the perspective of Singapore’s development model and corporate practices, as well as its digital policy and priorities. Major features of Singaporean economic modernization as the backbone of dialogue between the state agencies and the corporate sector are systemized, the specifics ...
Added: January 30, 2026
В.Н. Минина, СПб.: Издательство Санкт-Петербургского университета, 2025.
The monograph, prepared by St. Petersburg State University professors, examines the processes of digital transformation of Russian higher education before and during the coronavirus pandemic. The authors analyze key regulatory and legal changes, as well as changes in regulation due to the emerging global challenges. They pay a special attention to the evolution of legal ...
Added: January 29, 2026
Korotayev A., Andrey Zhdanov, Julia Zinkina et al., Comparative Sociology 2025 Vol. 24 No. 6 P. 801–842
Revolutionary events are increasingly likely to take unarmed forms. This trend has been observed over the past 120 years as a result of the World System transformation, wherein most societies increased their GDP per capita, experienced the spread of modern formal education, and moved from predominantly rural and very young populations to mostly urban and ...
Added: December 27, 2025
Gaman-Golutvina O. V., Мировая экономика и международные отношения 2025 Т. 69 № 5 С. 131–139
O.V. Gaman-Golutvina examines in the article the factors of economic success of Saudi Arabia based on the analysis of the historical path of this country. Far from deep knowledge of the topic, superficial explanations, known for their commitment to simple answers to complex questions, reduce the factors of Saudi Arabia's achievements to oil, the proceeds ...
Added: December 8, 2025
Andrey Korotayev, Andrey Zhdanov, Julia Zinkina et al., Comparative Sociology 2025 Vol. 24 No. 6 P. 801–842
Revolutionary events are increasingly likely to take unarmed forms. This trend has been observed over the past 120 years as a result of the World System transformation, wherein most societies increased their GDP per capita, experienced the spread of modern formal education, and moved from predominantly rural and very young populations to mostly urban and older ...
Added: November 21, 2025
Kozyreva P. M., Zhu D., Smirnov A. I., RUDN Journal of Sociology 2025 Vol. 25 No. 3 P. 565–579
The article is based on the results of the joint Russian Chinese research project. The authors use sociological and statistical data to consider the specifics of the structural shifts in the population’s consumption, which occurred under modernization in Russia and China. During the last thirty years, given an increase in population’s income and expenses, the ...
Added: October 29, 2025
Akhmerov D., Laboratorium. Журнал социальных исследований 2024 Т. 16 № 2 С. 197–201
Книга «Хрущевка: советское и несоветское в пространстве повседневности» – попытка рассказать, как менялась жизнь советского человека на рубеже 1950–1960-х годов в контексте общемировых, главным образом западноевропейских, тенденций модернизации повседневности. Главная задача книги – «рассказать о “хрущевке” как о парадоксе, сочетающем в себе элементы “советского” и “несоветского”» (с. 20). ...
Added: September 29, 2025
Musaev A. U., Государство, религия, церковь в России и за рубежом 2024 Т. 42 № 4 С. 224–254
In the article, using the example of Muslim regions of Russia (North Caucasus and Volga region), the cultural hypothesis of the evolutionary theory of modernization by R. Inglehart and K. Welzel is tested. Using survey data from online communities, we demonstrate that the classic idea of evolutionary modernization theory about greater secularization in richer regions ...
Added: November 24, 2024
Glushkov A., Шаповалов М. С., Новейшая история России 2025 Т. 15 № 2 С. 473–486
The article is dedicated to the relationship between modernization and Orthodox pilgrimage in Russia at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Reflecting on the interconnectedness of modernization processes, transportation development, and pilgrimage practices, the authors aim to address several related questions: Did modernization and new forms of transportation alter ...
Added: November 10, 2024
Makarenko B., Политическая наука 2024 № 2 С. 218–236
The article substantiates the need to develop a universal index of
institutionalized competition and participation to be applied for assessing political
regimes in different states. This need is dictated by changes in societies and channels of
social communication produced by modernization and political development. In
political science, it is customary to consider such processes in the context of
democratization, but, ...
Added: May 31, 2024
Мельвилль А. Ю., Политическая наука 2024 № 2 С. 218–236
The article substantiates the need to develop a universal index of
institutionalized competition and participation to be applied for assessing political
regimes in different states. This need is dictated by changes in societies and channels of
social communication produced by modernization and political development. In
political science, it is customary to consider such processes in the context of
democratization, but, ...
Added: May 29, 2024
Илья Сумерников, Андрей Уфимцев, Slav M. et al., Социологическое обозрение 2024 Т. 23 № 1 С. 302–356
Since the beginning of the 21st century, the number of empirical studies devoted to the analysis of factors influencing the risks of terrorist activity has increased significantly. At the same time, estimates of the impact of individual factors may differ in different studies, which is why there is a need for a generalizing work in ...
Added: April 1, 2024
Алешковский И. А., Бондаренко В. М., Россия и современный мир 2021 № 2 С. 71–85
Measures taken by different states to prevent the COVID-19 pandemic have aggravated crisis signs and symptoms in the socio-economic development of different countries and the modern world, and updated the issues of their further changes. The article, basing on the analysis of possible models of socio-economic development, shows the nature of the contemporary systemic crisis ...
Added: March 19, 2024
Sharova E., Проблемы национальной стратегии 2013 № 4 (19) С. 115–136
Despite the fact that Russia and France have a number of promising joint projects of strategic importance to the economies of both countries, the potential for the development of Russian-French trade and economic relations remains unfulfilled. The increase in bilateral trade and investment cooperation, as well as the development of political dialogue at the highest ...
Added: November 10, 2023
Degterev D. A., Мировая экономика и международные отношения 2021 Т. 65 № 4 С. 113–122
This article is devoted to the evolution of non-Western theories of development in the epoch of global capitalism,
i. e. after 1990. It describes in detail what is meant by this concept – models of socio-economic development, alternative to the Western neoliberal paradigm and associated with the modernization of non-Western countries, primarily in the “Global South”. Periodization of ...
Added: September 7, 2023
Krasnov M., Сравнительное конституционное обозрение 2023 № 1 С. 48–71
In the first part of the article the author criticizes the approach to explaining the reasons for the failures of Russian modernizations, which ignores the role and importance of the institutional factor. Meanwhile, institutions, including the model of organization of public authority, are by no means a “hostage” of natural, geographical and socio-cultural factors that shape public ...
Added: March 1, 2023
Zinkina J., Ustyuzhanin V., Shulgin S., Social Evolution & History 2022 Vol. 21 No. 2 P. 91–105
The transition to expanded production and the exit from the Malthusian trap, two of the most important components of modernization transition, lead to a long-term trend of per capita GDP growth, and hence of the level of income and material well-being of the population. The question whether the factor of wealth affects the structure of individual human ...
Added: January 10, 2023