№ 3 - 2013
Kulpin E.S.

The Globalizing World and Political Modernization


The author reviews the monograph: В.В. Лапкин. Политическая модернизация России в контексте глобальных изменений. М.: ИМЭМО РАН, 2012. – 140 с. (V.V.Lapkin. Political modernization of Russia in the Context of Global Changes), in which Russian modernization is investigated in a long historical perspective and in the context of the global politico-institutional dynamics of the New Time. The author analyzes the nature of the dynamic contradictions of this transformation, conceptualizes particular historical forms of modernization in Russia.