Universal History Annotation << Back ON A ROLE OF AN INDIVIDUAL PERSONALITY IN HISTORY (BY THE EXAMPLE OF A.I. SOLZHENITSYN) S.E. Azintsev The polyalternativeness of social and political, social and economic development is considered from the position of order’s parameters, turbulences and bifurcations of complex dissipative systems in an unstable state. In this context, the role of personality in history is determined through the impact of the individual on the critical point of the system. Solzhenitsyn’s phenomena of 1962 and the nineties of the 20th century are signifi cantly different because of changing the order’s parameters and critical points of Russian society. Keywords: history; the role of personality in history; a dissipative system; instability, turbulence; economics; culture; authoritarianism; repressions; consciousness; creation; freedom; conformism. Contacts: E-mail: fonon-41@mail.ru Pp. 43-66.