GEOGRAPHICAL FACTORS OF SOCIETAL MODERNIZATION: SOME LESSONS FROM THE WORLD AND RUSSIA’S HISTORY XIX–XX AGES
Abstract
Selected historical and geographical problems of societal modernization and its relation to particular spatial characteristics of countries and regions, especially of the largest states, are discussed and some tentative, mostly scientific, lessons derived from the analysis are suggested. The author adopts a broad interpretation of modernization regarded as a development based on innovations, which are adequate to criteria and targets of each time. Brief compendia of ideas on the main aspects of the topic are combined with some generalizations and schemes. The conclusion is made that the modernization process is not only multi-scale and non-linear (undulating), but also contradictory in its social and cultural effects. The latter are associated in Russia with the ongoing catch-up type of development, the country’s size and spatial infrastructure. However, many properties of its space, often perceived as barriers, were not and are not fatal.
About the Author
A. I. Treivish
Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences; Moscow State University.
Russian Federation
Department of Socio-Economic Geography, Chief Scientific Researcher, D.Sc. in Geography; Faculty of Geography, Professor.
Russian Federation
Department of Socio-Economic Geography, Chief Scientific Researcher, D.Sc. in Geography; Faculty of Geography, Professor.
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Treivish A.I. GEOGRAPHICAL FACTORS OF SOCIETAL MODERNIZATION: SOME LESSONS FROM THE WORLD AND RUSSIA’S HISTORY XIX–XX AGES. Vestnik Moskovskogo universiteta. Seriya 5, Geografiya. 2017;(6):3-8. (In Russ.)
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