REVIEW OF APPROACHES TO REVEALING REGULARITIES IN SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF CERTAIN TERRITORIES
The paper gives a review of basic theoretical approaches to interpreting historical processes of development, noting their imperfections. Subject to picking out being theories which combine mutually complementary ones; together with detailed consideration of two theoretical models on historical development of Russia. The author suggests using a systemic approach under modeling West Siberia, formulating an objective and problems of the future investigation.