The article refers to the principal directions of strengthening of the government role in the different areas of the social life in modern Russia, which were formed in 1990-s as a result of the actions of liberal reformers in order to strengthen their positions in the Russian society. The following conclusion has been drawn: the ambition to make irreversible the process of liberal transformation of Russian society considerably defined the highest social cost of reforms and great split of the society, features of existing political regime, all the contradictions and draw
