The economic development of Russia in XIX - the beginning of XX century: the experience of modernization paradigm

The experience of the modernization method usage in the researches of the main peculiarities in economic development of Russia in XIX - the beginning of XX century is analyzed in the article. Two stages of economic modernization are stated, they are: postindustrial and early-industrial. It is stated, that the movement from one stage to another one was not momentary. On one hand from 30-40 years of XIX century appeared industrial forms of the industry, from the other - there are many postindustrial forms of the industry, which used to be valuable in the second half of XIX - beginning of the XX century. Thus, it is noticed, that the early - industrial press of economic modernization in the beginning of XIX century was not finished.