Social state in modern Russia: old problems and new challenges

The developed countries of the West embarked on the construction of the welfare state in terms of economic distress in the face of threats to national security. In the article on the basis of the analysis of monetary, fiscal, industrial and social policy is evaluated whether the cur-rent crisis analogous «moment of truth» for modern Russia. It is shown changelessness of the course that is contrary to the fundamentals of the welfare state. Additional problems relate with Russia's accession to the WTO, that fraught with not only of the declining of production, but also of the strengthening of market fundamentalism in the approaches to the social sphere.