“…The processes of the transition to "modern economic growth" (Kuznets, 1966) occurred in post-Emancipation Russia at the end of the 19 th century and was interpreted in the literature in the framework of development economics and post-Marxist institutionalism (Shmelev, Popov, 1989;Nureev, Latov, 2013;Popov, 2014). Two streams of interpretations of the prevailing trend in the dynamics of Russia's economic development in the period under review stand out.…”