European civilization: separate worlds or parts of a whole European civilization: separate worlds or parts of a wholeISSN 2073-3038Posted on site: 07.07.15Текст статьи.AbstractThe collapse of the Soviet Union - an event that led the formation of a new configuration of the world system/ This is globalrole. The national importance of this event for Russia tom yu that she had to seek a worthy place in the world . Russia again, as in the early 1990s, it is located at the historic crossroads: o its own way, or to use the European experience of social modernization, which has already successfully mastered the Third World states - Asian and South American.