Didenko D.V. Human Capital in Russia in the Context of Social and Economic Modernization Didenko D.V. Human Capital in Russia in the Context of Social and Economic Modernization // Rossiia i sovremenny mir. 2015. No. 4. P. 174-187.ISSN 1726-5223РИНЦ: http://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=25107413Posted on site: 19.05.16AbstractThe paper explores the issue on the role of human capital in economic development of Russia in a comparative context of catching-up modernization. We discuss application of the principal approaches to human capital measurement and the respective methods of its assessment to our analysis of the Soviet and post-Soviet economic history. We identify the long-term trends of education penetration and of human capital formation, differentiation and utilization in Russia.