title: T.N. Granovsky on transitional eras in the historical development of mankind
abstract: The author emphasizes that in the context of the appeal of domestic humanitarian knowledge to the socialist period of Russian history, the problem of transitional periods in the movement of national and world history acquires a new meaning. The article shows that the factors determining their duration in time, the nature of the forms of social activity associated with them, the conjugation of the latter with the general laws of the progressive movement of mankind, have become key issues of many 
journal: Polylogos