The most important results of research on the problems of the theory and history of modernization in the 18^th – 20^thcenturies.

Aspects:

Problems of the modernizationtheory;

Industrialization as a key factor in modernization;

Urbanization: patterns and regional features;

Regional features of modernization;

Education and science as factors of modernization;

Civilizational and national specifics of modernization in China.