THE MODEL OF RUSSIAN PSEUDO-MODERNIZATION
The paper presents the hypothesis according to which the effect of pseudo-modernization depends on the dynamics of processes among the society's elites. The author uses the notion of «the coalition of applicants» to explain selectivity of pseudo-modernization. The study results in a model containing factors which are important for the emergence of the pseudo-modernization effect. This model explains the cyclic dynamics of the transformation of the countries of the modernization «second echelon».