title: The Social Question in Russia: From De-Politicization to a Growing Sense of Exploitation
abstract: This chapter discusses the trajectory of the social question in post-soviet Russia. Three perspectives are shown: social-economic transformations since the fall of the Soviet regime and the evolution of public discourses on social problems, the subjective and social experience of precariousness and informality, and the place of social grievances in claims directed at the state. It is argued that striking social changes are unfolding now in Russia, in a direction opposite to the atomization and a