ABSTRACT
Russia has had a very troubled experience over the last ten years. This chapter examines some of these issues for Russia in the late 1990s through an original set of policy and household interview data. The events of recent years in Russia have provided a 'pure experiment' unwittingly performed on tens of millions of Russians. However, in Russia's new circumstances, those social strata who were very well looked after under the old regime have found themselves in the position of paupers. New typologies of European welfare states, generated through an examination of the situation of male workers, bear a great similarity to typologies of European industrial relations, even though the two fields are quite distinct academic enterprises. Poverty, its nature and causes, have been a central focus for social science for more than two centuries. The Swedish data also compared income poverty and deprivation items on a modified Mack and Lansley basis.
