The crisis experienced by the world system prompts us to turn to the analysis of the model of Western industrial society. In most Eastern countries, the transition to the state of modern society has not yet been completed, so the crisis is complicated by the presence of semi-traditional and semi-modern ways of life. The countries of the East and West have considerable opportunities to overcome the crisis if they define new development goals and use modernization tools, taking into account such objective development factors as civilizational, demographic, food, environmental, and energy. Key words: East, West, crisis, modernization, tradition. The crisis state of the modern world, whose obvious manifestations were the financial crisis of 2008-2009 and the events of the "Arab Spring" of 2011, once again drew attention to the problem of choosing the path of development for the countries of the East. Until the end of the twentieth century, it was believed that most of the Eastern countries were following the path of catch-up development, using the Western model of modern industrial capitalist society as an example. However, the crisis phenomena in the Western world and the very policy of the West have called into question the attractiveness of the existing model of modernization. This is the crisis of a given social system, the emergence of objective conditions for interrupting the linear process of gradualness, for a new formulation of the question of the development goal. This was the crisis of pre-industrial society on the eve of transformation into a new state. Such is the current crisis of incompleteness in Russia's transition to a post-industrial state, and in many Eastern countries - the crisis of incompleteness in the industrial revolution and the formation of a modern bourgeois society. But part of this phenomenon was the crisis of the original model of development for non - Western societies-Western industrial capitalist society. This model is still strong, st ... Читать далее