Russian World-Systems Analysis School

= Jack Goldstone calls it the Russian global-historical systems school, and credits them with a synthesis of the great debate around the Great Divergence vs the Great Convergence, which is about the reasons for the Rise of the West [/https://www.sociostudies.org/upload/sociostudies.org/journal/seh/2016_2/194-200.pdf]

Directory

of articles and materials in our wiki:

(status: add works by Korotayev and Turchin)

Books

• Great Divergence vs Great Convergence: * Book: GREAT DIVERGENCE AND GREAT CONVERGENCE. A Global Perspective. By Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey. Springer,

• Early State and Its Alternatives: * Book: The Early State, Its Alternatives and Analogues. Ed. by Leonid E. Grinin, Robert L. Carneiro et al. 'Uchitel' Publishing House, 2004
  • Democracy and the Early State. Leonid Grinin. Social Evolution & History. Volume 3, Number 2 / September 2004

• Big History Perspective on Evolution, i.e. the Book: EVOLUTION: A Big History Perspective. Edited by: Edited by Leonid E. Grinin, Аndrey V. Korotayev, Barry H. Rodrigue. Volgograd: ‘Uchitel’ 2023
  • Comparison of Biological and Social Macro-Evolution: Chapter 10 of: Evolution: A - Leonid Grinin et al. [1]

• Cultural Dimensions of Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations: Edited by Leonid E. Grinin and Andrey V. Korotayev Moscow: KRASAND, 2009. - 216 p.
  • Hierarchy and Power in the History of Ancient and Medieval Civilizations

• Book: MACROHISTORY AND GLOBALIZATION. By Leonid Grinin. Volgograd: ‘Uchitel’ Publishing House, 2012.
  • Production Revolutions and Periodization of History: Chapter 1 of the book: Macrohistory and Globalization.

• Handbook of Revolutions in the 21st Century

Journal

• Social Evolution and History (journal)

Topics / Articles / Chapters

• Inequality Cycles

• Structural-Demographic Theory ; Secular Cycles Theory

• Evolution of Military Technologies from the Neolithic to the Industrial Revolution

• Leonid Grinin on the Evolution of State Forms: on major qualitative stages of the development of the world productive forces. Grinin singles out four principles of production: Hunter-gatherer; Craft-Agrarian; Leonid Grinin connects major technological achievements with the Cybernetic revolution. ; Evolutionary Pathways to Statehood.

• The Grinin Interpretation of the Sixth Kondratieff Wave

• • Production Revolution

• Maintaining Order in Pre-Monarchical Rankless Societies

• World System Energetics

• Cycles of Technological Clustering ; Dynamics of Technological Growth Rate

• Crossing the Threshold of Cyborgization