THE ROLE OF URBANIZATION IN DEVELOPMENT OF PARTY-STATE SYSTEM OF THE USSR

Abstract

The article reveals the main historical provisions of urbanization processes and the specifics of urban development on selected examples of the North Caucasus region. The authors attempted to identify the main advantages and disadvantages of urbanization in the framework of the Caucasian city. The article presents the effects of the modernization process on the example of urban growth and the expansion of their influence on all aspects of society, which is traditionally considered among scientists to be phenomenal, one of the most significant phenomena in the 20th century. Based on historical research, the process of urban growth, the gradual formation of their networks and systems, and the spread of urban lifestyles are related to the urbanization process. Traditionally, to characterize urbanization take only its first component, showing the proportion of urban population. But it is important to take into account the total urban population, that is, to use not only relative, but also absolute data, thus showing the level and extent of urbanization. On the basis of archival materials put into scientific circulation and periodicals of the period under study, the authors study the synthesis of theoretical and practical stages associated with the modernization, industrialization, urbanization and sociocultural development of the North Caucasus in the second half of the 20th century. Based on the research of historical experience, a deep methodological analysis of the problems has been conducted. In the present article, the authors attempted to identify the main advantages and disadvantages of urbanization within the framework of the Caucasian city. On the basis of archival materials introduced into scientific circulation and periodicals of the period under study, the authors study the implementation of general trends and reveal the specifics of the North Caucasian history of this period. Researchers conclude that urbanization was a factor in the development of Soviet cities in the Caucasus