Boris Kagarlitsky

Director, Institute of Globalisation Studies (IPROG)
goboka [at] pisem.net

TNI fellow, co-ordinator of the TNI Global Crisis project and Director of the Institute of Globalization Studies in Moscow, Boris' latest books are Russia Under Yeltsin And Putin: Neo-Liberal Autocracy (TNI/Pluto 2002) and New Realism, New Barbarism: The Crisis of Capitalism (Pluto 1999). He won the Deutscher Memorial Prize for his book, The Thinking Reed: Intellectuals and the Soviet State (Verso 1988). He writes regularly for The Moscow Times and Eurasian Home. Previously, he was a student of art criticism and was imprisoned for two years for 'anti-Soviet' activities related to his editorship of a samizdat journal, Leviy Povorot. Boris was co-ordinator of the Moscow People's Front between '88 and '90, and also advised the Workers' Committee of Prokpievsk and Karaganda during this period. He was a deputy to the Moscow City Soviet between 1990-93, during which time he was a member of the executive of the Socialist Party of Russia, co-founder of the Party of Labour, and advisor to the Chairperson of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia.

Areas of interest

Russian Political Economy; Globalisation & the Crisis of Capitalism

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books

The Politics of Empire: Globalisation in Crisis
Edited by Alan Freeman and Boris Kagarlitsky, Pluto Press/TNI, August 2004

Russia under Yeltsin and Putin. Neo-liberal Autocracy
Pluto Press, March 2002

The Return of Radicalism. Reshaping the Left Institutions
Pluto Press, London/USA, January 2000

The Twilight of Globalization. Property, State and Capitalism
Pluto Press, London/USA, December 1999

New Realism. New Barbarism. Socialist Theory in the Era of Globalization
Pluto Press, London/USA, September 1999

Globalization and Its Discontents. The Rise of Postmodern Socialisms
Co-author with Roger Burbach and Orlando Nuñez
Pluto Press, London/USA, 1996

Papers

A Black Cat in a Dark Room a critique of the book "Empire" by Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt, TNI Website, 27 October 2004

Facing the Crisis Paper presented at the Global Crisis Seminar, TNI, Amsterdam, 17-18 February 2002