Undeclared Reform of Social and Labor Relations in the 1990s

Abstract

The factors that have formed the present state of social and labor relations in Russia are analysed in the article. Basic directions of social and structural (revolutionary) transformations, which are required and possible during the transition from the totalitarian state to democracy, are described. It is shown that real changes in social and labor relations and in the position of workers in today's Russia have become consequences of social and structural reforms and there is a gap between them and objective opportunities of democratic transformations. Prospects of social and labor relations together with feasible scenarios of the development of the Russian society as a whole are characterized.