Russia and Europe. "Age of innovations"

The publication is dedicated to understanding the process of Europeanization of Russia. The author classifies the beginning of this process to the Grand Duchess of Ivan III. From answers to questions about the causes, meaning and significance of Russia"s entry into the circle of European powers, the perception of the Russian civilization of the cultural and historical experience of Europeans, the results of this interaction largely depends on the questions about the characteristics of the Russian sociocultural system as a whole, including the historical aspect and the historical aspect and and Current state. This book continues the analysis of the process of Europeanization of Russia, begun in the book "Russia and Europe. The beginning of the dialogue ".
The author analyzes the increasing Western influence on the Russian kingdom of the 17th century, shows the inconsistency of this phenomenon, the complexity of it by Russian society and the active role of the central state power in the initiation of the development of a variety of experience of Western Europe, which has already entered into the era of modernization. The process of complex interactions with Western neighbors was not an accident. Already in the XVII "century of innovations", he became an important structural element of the mentality of the socio-political elite of Russia. Europeanization became something that replaced the process of modernization of Russia in the 17th century, which prepared the future transformations of the Petrine era, this at the same time facilitating and complicating the modernization of Russia in the future