title: Imperial and Soviet Modernization
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metadata.value: Mironov, Boris N.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-04-04T14:18:20Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-04-04T14:18:20Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Mironov B. N. Imperial and Soviet Modernization. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2018, vol. 63, issue 1, pp. 54–82.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2018.104
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/9278
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: In Russia, during the imperial and Soviet periods, the society developed from tradition to modernity,
  resulting in the emergence of the advanced industrial technologies and corresponding
  political, cultural and social mechanisms, which enabled to support, use and manage these
  technologies. The imperial modernization took place according to the classical European scenario.
  In terms of goals, means and results Soviet modernization was its continuation. However,
  while in some respects (the formation of a rational, educated, secularly oriented personality,
  industrialization, urbanization, the democratization of the family, the emancipation of women
  and children), Soviet modernization bore resemblance with the classical Western model, it
  was different as far as other aspects were concerned (the priority of the state over the society,
  the primacy of the collective over the individual, restriction of individual freedom, centralization,
  planning). In short, the formula of Soviet modernization amounted to technological and
  material progress on the basis of traditional social institutions. Soviet modernization provided
  less rapid development and came at a higher price compared to the Imperial one. However, if
  it had not been for huge and unjustified human sacrifices, Soviet modernization could have
  been deemed a success, although it, like the imperial one, ended in a crisis and revolution.
  The fact that the imperial modernization was replaced with the Soviet one after the military
  revolution of 1917, and the post-Soviet change from the Soviet period occurred as a result of
  the peaceful revolution of 1991–1993, does not mean that both processes of modernization
  did not take place or that they failed. Imperial modernization had more impact on the educated
  part of the society, on the upper strata, on a considerable part of the urban population
  and partly on the peasantry who supported the Stolypin reform. The above-mentioned groups
  overlapped, so their percentage in relation to the total population hardly exceeded 30–35. The
  lion’s share of the population, who lived predominantly in the countryside, was not affected
  by modernization, and a large number of them either had a negative attitude to the fundamental
  modernization processes (for example, to the commercialization, social and material
  bourgeois differentiation) or were indifferent to them. Soviet modernization embraced the
  entire society, and its impact was deeper and more comprehensive. In terms of their results,
  both processes of modernization can be considered to have been relatively successful projects,
  although they did not resolve all the tasks and hopes that were associated with them.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: Исследование выполнено за счет гранта Российского научного фонда (проект № 15-18-00119).
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 63; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: imperial and Soviet modernization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: models and strategy of conducting
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: similarities and differences
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: criticism of modernization assessments
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: convergence of Russia and the West
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the Russian track
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the future of Russia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Imperial and Soviet Modernization
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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