WORLD-SYSTEM APPROACH TO WORLD HISTORY
The article reveals the content and essence of world-system approach which appeared in the Western scientific discourse in 1960s-1970s.The domestic science got interested in this paradigm not long ago. Russian researchers’ attention to this theory increased in 2000s. In the context of modern world globalization the world-system theory has become especially topical. The article reveals peculiarities of methodological approaches of A. G. Frank and I. Wallerstein. The author highlights the problem of possibilities of world-system approach application to world history.