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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
History shows that in the development of a society, as in any other development, there are critical periods when deep and sudden changes take place, and crucial decisions need to be made. What makes these periods critical is that certain conditions must exist or be created at the right time. Otherwise chances for change may be lost and the results will be fundamentally different from what they could have been.
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