Eurasian topogenesis and geocultural standards of economic reforms in Russian history
The article analyzes the influence of Eurasian topogenesis on the status of the Russian empire - the USSR in the capitalistic world-economy. It shows that this status remained semi-peripheral in spite of the efforts of the power (monarchist and then Soviet) to reform economic system on the basis of introducing the experience  of geo-cultural models of those countries that succeeded in taking stand in the main body of the world-system.