Sociocultural Evolution and Modernization. Foreword

Misfortunes of the past 100 years and new threats of the 21 st century have taught us the main lesson - people’s communities should learn to live and develop without wars or revolutions, in an evolutionary way. Anthropo-socio-cultural evolutionism has been proposed as a socio-philosophical and sociological concretization of a general scientific paradigm of universal evolutionism. The most important field of application of this methodology is modernization - a complex change of social structures and their functions, evolutionary transformation of society from one qualitative state into another. What ways of self-development of each modernization stage and their interrelationships are more effective, successful in modern Russia? The authors of the «Atlas of modernization of Russia and its regions» have come to a twofold answer to the question about the ways of modernization in Russia: on the one hand, free initiatives from below, from regions are required through the development of regional innovative systems as a primary level of the national innovation system, leaning on regional resources, on the results of scientific research, and obtaining administrative and other support from federal authorities; on the other hand, megaprojects on the country’s scale, initiated and ensured by federal authorities with the support of related regions.

революция, эволюция, универсальный и антропосо- циокультурный эволюционизм, пособы саморазвития социокультурных сообществ, модернизация, интегрированная мо- дернизация, координация индустриальной и информационной стадий, региональные инновационные системы, мегапроекты, revolution, evolution, universal and anthropo-socio-cultural evolutionism, ways of self-development of sociocultural communities, mo- dernization, integrated modernization, coordination of industrial and informational stages, regional innovative systems, megaprojects

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