POST-SOVIET TRANSIT AND DEMODERNIZATION

Abstract

It is a conceptual introduction into the issue on the post-Soviet transit and demodernization. Etkind and Minakov stupulate that post-Soviet societies, in spite of hopes for transit, has made a big step backwards in their development. The scholars define demodernization as a reverse development in a modern society, which borrows from the previous stages of modernization and creates a new, mixed and improvised order. Also they review the theory of demodernization. And in the end they provide readers with the short description of all other articles in the issue.

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Alexander Etkind, Mykhailo Minakov

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Alexander Etkind, Mykhailo Minakov (2018). POST-SOVIET TRANSIT AND DEMODERNIZATION. Идеология и политика (рус) / Ідеологія і політика (укр) / Ideology and Politics (Eng), 9(1), 4-13. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-630310