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The world's changing social conditions have introduced principally new parameters: globalization, which questions traditional Eurocentric theories; information technologies, which open doors to online communications between representatives of different societies, irrespective of developmental stereotypes and historical diversities; and more intensive intercultural mobility, which reveals the importance of new value-free and more neutral terminology in order to avoid the mechanical explanation of one culture in terms and values taken from another one.

From this point of view, the democratic transit theory, which was dominant after the collapse of the Soviet Union and during the period of anti-Communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, could…