| Abstrakt: |
For untold centuries social stratification has been a feature of human societies, forming, as George Orwell put it, a payment for civilization. The continuing relevance of the topic arises from the fact that, being inevitable, stratification has generated and still generates various negative social effects: an increase in crime and mortality, a decline in life expectancy, and much more. An American researcher calculated that in 1990, in the USA, social inequality claimed more lives than HIV, lung cancer, diabetes and road accidents combined. Also in the UK each winter, about 20,000 people die from illness exacerbated by not being able to afford to pay for heating. In this article, the authors explore the state of social equality in the Soviet and post-Soviet period throughout the territory of the Russian Federation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
