Globalisation and Russia

As often happens with such terms, the word “globalisation” has become popular in our country only belatedly. To be exact, it has become popular among us at the very moment when people around the world have ceased talking about the rise of a new global economy, and instead have begun talking about its crisis. The fact that our commentators and theoreticians have begun speaking of globalisation later than those in the West does not indicate that the process has passed us by or that its impact has been delayed. It simply testifies to the backwardness of our social thinking.