Putin'Z Nation by Russo Scournelius

Author:Russo, Scournelius
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-12-14T00:00:00+00:00

Social groups and perceived societal fragmentation

“Many misfortunes have come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky about Russian Literature

Putin’z nation and other peoples living in Russia are difficult to disentangle into clearly defined social groups. Unlike tsarist Russia where babies were born into relatively certain futures, Soviet society initially was a mix of various classes which eventually got equalized in the simplest form – the so-called class of peasants and workers. The living conditions of the peasant and workers were different. Education levels were a bit higher among workers. Their life routine was different. Yet it is impossible to distinguish value sets between a worker and a peasant beyond their professional occupation. Workers mostly consisted of the peasants that moved to towns and cities during mass economic and forced reallocations. Peasants that remained in villages had fewer rights and did not have passports until 1974. They had less access to spending money and consumed much of the food they have grown themselves. In other words, identifiable differences in lifestyle depend on profession or age category. Let’s explore this first.

With Soviet Union’s death, many republics with relatively high fertility rates were gone. Children and students share in Russia declined to 24% in 2018 from 27% in 1980 in the Soviet Union. The scale shall be noted too – 35 million against 74 million accordingly.

Children and students aside, let’s look at pensioners. In 2018, 30% of the living population in Russia were pensioners or an army of 44 million people (equal to the size of Ukraine). That is 12% more than in the Soviet Union in 1980. This group in 2018 was larger than the total population of 55+ which equaled 42 million. That suggests that about 2 million pensioners came from professions that allow early retirement (mostly army and law enforcement). Women accounted for around 60% of the pensioners’ group.

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