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Прекаризация среднего класса в новой России: о чём говорят результаты исследования гетерогенных средних слоёв?
The paper aims to study the heterogeneity of the middle classes in the new Russia. Drawing from the monitoring survey data collected by the Institute of Sociology of FCTAS RAS, 2015 and 2018, the author employed Bayesian latent class analysis to detect Russian middle class and its main subgroups. In 2015 and 2018 it counted 58% and 61% of the population, respectively. Precarization of the middle is occurring in the lower stratum of the middle class, which comprises up to two-thirds of the middle class. The current paper gives a more optimistic view on the estimated of the relative share of the middle class in Russian society, though it was documented that precarious zone of the middle class expanded between 2015 and 2018. The precariousness of the middle class is revealed in job-related risks, such as low-paid contracts, labour right abuses and disadvantaged working conditions.