N.Ya. Danilevsky about world history and Russian historical development way
Considering the nature and specifics of world history, N. Danilevsky noted that history must be divided not only according to age (or time) that was common in contemporary European historical science, as according to cultural-historical types, each of which has its ancient, middle and new story. In total, according to Danilevsky, there are ten cultural-historical types that have passed all stages of its development. They need to add two more American and one only becoming of the Slavic cultural-historical type. The peculiarity of Russia in the framework of the Slavic cultural-historical type is, according to N. Danilevsky, in the communal nature of land use. Noting the specifics of the Slavic cultural-historical type and its difference from other types Danilevsky stressed that each cultural-historical type characterized by a varying combination of four digits activities. But only in the Slavic cultural-historical type this combination consists that all four categories of activities in it are equal and are the basis of this cultural-historical type.