CIAO DATE: 06/2008
February 2001
Finnish Institute for International Affairs
“Modernity ends when words like progress, advance, development, emancipation, liberation, growth, accumulation, enlightenment, embetterment, avant-garde, lose their attraction and their function as guides to social action.” By this definition, Russia and China are both still undertaking extensive modernisation – though by very different means. Why have Russia and China chosen such different paths for their post-communist transitions? How do their strategies differ, and how are they interrelated? When – at what junctures - were the crucial choices made?
Resource link: At the Crossroads of Post-Communist Modernisation: Russia and China in Comparative Perspective [PDF] - 543K