title: Stalin modernization as a historical experience
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metadata.value: Dudnik, Sergey I.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2019-11-14T10:02:35Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2019-11-14T10:02:35Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2019-09
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Dudnik S. I. Stalin modernization as a historical experience. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2019, vol. 35, issue 3, pp. 394–405.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2019.301
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/16577
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: In this article we consider the third attempt of modernizing Russia, or Stalin modernization.
  Along with previous attempts, Stalin modernization had the character of a “revolution from
  above”. As it defined the creation of a society of socialism, the critical evaluation of the historical
  experience of Stalin modernization, including all its negative and positive aspects, is
  very important for modern studies of man and society. In the end, the existing evaluations of
  Stalin modernization depend on the relationship to the Soviet experience of creating a socialist
  society in the USSR. The first characteristic feature of Stalin modernization is the fact that,
  along with previous modernization attempts, it was “overtaking modernization”. The fact that
  all attempts of modernization in Russia were kinds of “revolution from above” predetermined
  the inverse sequence of transformations: initiatives of the ruling class were not the answer
  to the needs of civil society; on the contrary, these initiatives were directed towards regulating
  the development of civil society and its requirements. Marxist rhetoric, which served as
  ideological support for Stalin modernization, should not mislead when Stalin transformations
  are presented as unique, not having analogs in the history. Stalin modernization was strongly
  connected with preparation for war, and if this preparation concealed the ultimate goals of
  transformation (“creation of socialism in a separately taken country” in Marxist terminology),
  then at that time it was quite justified, as there was a possibility of the disappearance of both
  the subject and object of modernization. Incomplete Stalin modernization led to the death of the political system which it had also created, and to the death of the state which was given rise
  to by the requirements of modernization.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The research was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, grant 19-011-00603
  “Science as a social institution in projects of the Russian modernization (Petersburg experience)”.
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. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 35; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: modernization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Stalinism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: revolution from above
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: industrialization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: USSR
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Stalin modernization as a historical experience
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metadata.value: Article
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