BORIS KAGARLITSKY

TNI

September 2006

			Director of the Institute of Globalisation and Social Movements goboka [at] gmail.com
	TNI fellow, co-ordinator of the TNI Global Crisis project and Director of the Institute of Globalization and Social Movements in Moscow, that also runs Rabkor. Boris's latest books are Empire of the Periphery: Russia and the World System (Pluto Press, February 2008), The Revolt of the Middle Class (Kulturnaya revolutsiya, 2006). 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. Curriculum Vitae
	Areas of interest		Russian Political Economy; Globalisation & the Crisis of Capitalism

	SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
	Books		Empire of the Periphery: Russia and the World System Pluto Press, February 2008 The Revolt of the Middle Class Kulturnaya revolutsiya, 2006 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
	Selected articles