Voronkova, S.V. Determination of the prospects of economic, social and political modernization in the program documents of political parties in Russia in the early twentieth century.

Abstract: The article includes analysis of the policy documents of major political parties of the Russian Empire in the beginning of the twentieth century in terms of design and definition of a vision of economical, social and political modernization. Particular attention is paid to the presence of a retrospective analysis of Russian society in the post-reform time and at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in these documents. This approach allows to estimate the value of science-based theory in the development programs of political parties not only in the past, but also in contemporary political life.

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