The early 20th century russian revolutions: the lessons for the present

The early 20th century russian revolutions: the lessons for the present




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Mironov B.N. The early 20th century russian revolutions: the lessons for the present. – Polis. Political Studies. 2011. No. 5



Abstract

In the theory of modernization, it is comparative improvement of the conditions of life of the population that is considered the main criterion of modernization success. The author of the article turns the reader’s attention to certain real modernization in Russia in the late 18th to the early 20th centuries, revealed rather recently (by historians). He also exploits analytical data illustrating the rise of the living standards in Russia – the well-being of the population that went on growing cyclically within the period of 120 years from the end of the 18th century up to the First world war. As is proved in the article, the early 20th century Russian revolutions were not called forth by the country’s having entered a general permanent crisis after the Great reforms of the 1860s – they occurred, instead, because the society had not coped by the time with the problems generated by the accelerated modernization.


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