Communism in Russia

SOCIAL INEQUALITY AND WHY IT MATTERS FOR THE ECONOMIC AND DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENT OF EUROPE AND ITS CITIZENS: POST-COMMUNIST CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

DELIVERABLE 2 DESK RESEARCH

RUSSIA

Evdokimova E.P.; Eremitcheva G.V.; Ignatova S.N.; Poretskina E.M. Sociological Institute of Russia Academy of Sciences.
Scientific consultants: Man’ko Ju.V., St.Petersburg University of Technology and Design, professor Olimpieva I.B., Cenetr of Independent Social Research, PhD Cherejskij V.L., St.Petersburg State Pedagogical University, PhD Jakimenko A.A.., St.Petersburg State Pedagogical University, PhD Chistiakova N.Ye., Institute of the Problems of Regional Economy, RAS, PhD

CONTENTS Introduction Section 1. “Objective” indicators of social inequality Section 2. The state of existing knowledge of the main social causes and correlates of social inequality 2.1. Inequality and social structure 2.2. Inequality on the labour market 2.3. Inequality in education 2.4. Inequality in the sphere of health care 2.5. Investigations of inequality in the sphere of consumption 2.6. Territorial inequality 2.7. Investigations of ethno-social inequality 2.8. Gender inequality Section 3. Social inequality and national political culture Section 4. Social inequality and the national party system Section 5. National mechanisms for mitigation of social inequality 5.1. The Role of the State in Social Protection 5.2. Non-governmental mechanisms for the amelioration of social inequality Conclusion. The main sources of uncertainty in current data and knowledge regarding the characteristics and causes of social inequality Selected Bibliography p.2 p.2 p.9

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Introduction The desk research is devoted to the different images of social inequality in Russia. It is should be mentioned that in Soviet period it was impossible to carry out any researches on inequality because of political reasons, and corresponding statistics figures are