Modernization and Revolution
The article deals with the reasons on why the trend of entering the 100th Anniversary of the October Revolution in Russia’s scientific and social programs in 2017 has prevailed. The author cites reasonable interpretation of this trend given by the Americans. According to the article, there has been colliding domestic standpoints on many issues of Russia’s history and its interpretation, which most likely results in attempting to fuse heterogeneous developments of Russia’s history to present it as an integrity. The researcher proves that such fusion cannot be reached empirically without employing philosophy of the Russian history and regardless of conceptual analysis conducted by outstanding Russian historians. The article considers the concept of accumulating features of westernisation and modernisation of the Russian society, changing circumstances of modernisation, modern nature of modernisation in the age of globalisation. The author has found that both revolutions and counterrevolutions stem from late modernisation.