RUSSIAN PATH OF MODERNIZATION: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF IMPERIAL AND SOVIET MODELS
Though the 1917 revolution did cause a disruption in a continuous, universal process of industrial modernization of Russia, it did not altogether stop the development which could be viewed as two distinct models - the pre-revolutionary, and the Soviet ones. Despite their dramatic differences there still was a pattern of succession in the most important aspect - the vector of modernization. Comparison of the two models demonstrates that both had their own problems and inconsistencies. However the former, the imperial model failed historically ending up in a revolutionary explosion which to a great extent was detonated by the development model itself; while the latter made possible the transformation of Russia-USSR into a superpower, and was a significant factor in the nation's industrialization.