Envisioning the Russian Welfare State Model: The New Political Economy of Gender and the Labour Market

Global economic integration remodels patterns of political and economic development in both democratic and authoritarian countries, creating new opportunities but also new social risks. Russia is a big and complex country with a history of command political economy, where the state was responsible for social and care services. While the communist welfare state was inspired by Marxist ideology and underpinned by the command economy (Inglot 2008), in the past twenty–six years Russia has been charting new paths towards democracy as well as towards a market-oriented economy.