Russia and Modernization: The Enduring Legacy of Peter the Great

... impressive pace. However, Russia’s place in the global division of labor once again proved to be peripheral. Moreover, the collective West still did not accept Russia as “one of its own”. The current crisis in relations between Russia and the West, paradoxically, returns us to the Peter the Great paradigm. It has become clear that without technical, scientific, and industrial modernization, maintaining competition will be difficult, if not impossible. The symbolic sealing of the “window to Europe” does not change the logic ...