THE STUDIES ON NEW ZEALAND HISTORY IN RUSSIA (ON THE PUBLICATION OF LIUDMILA G. STEFANCHUK’S BOOK "THE HISTORY OF NEW ZEALAND. THE 20TH CENTURY")

The article elucidates the main stages of the studying New Zealand history in Russian historiography. Particular attention is paid to the recent work on New Zealand history, the monograph of Liudmila G. Stefanchuk. "The history of New Zealand. The 20th Century". The article gives a high assessment of that work. It is stressed that a number of the author's conclusions concerning the peculiarities of New Zealand historic path give much food for thoughts about the way of modernization and finding their own place in today's global world of the countries including Russia, which combine the characteristic features of developed and developing world.