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Boris Kagarlitsky

Boris Kagarlitsky
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Boris Kagarlitsky

Director of the Institute of Globalization and Social Movements in Moscow

Boris Kagarlitsky is a well-known international commentator on Russian politics and society. Boris 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.  Previously, he was a student of art criticism and was imprisoned for two years for 'anti-Soviet' activities.

Boris' books include Empire of the Periphery: Russia and the World System (Pluto Press, February 2008, Russia Under Yeltsin And Putin: Neo-Liberal Autocracy (TNI/Pluto 2002) and New Realism, New Barbarism: The Crisis of Capitalism (Pluto 1999).

Russian Political Economy; Medvedev, Putin and Yeltsin; Russian History; Globalisation & the Crisis of Capitalism; G8

Kagarlitsky won the Deutscher Memorial Prize for his book, The Thinking Reed: Intellectuals and the Soviet State (Verso 1988).

English, Russian

Boris Kagarlitsky writes regularly for The Moscow Times and Eurasian Home and is frequently interviewed for radio and television.

Selected publications: 
Empire of the Periphery
The Revolt of the Middle Class

Recent content by Boris Kagarlitsky

The World's Largest Pyramid Scheme (23 Aug 2011)

The United States managed to avert a default, and that is good news. But the partisan battle in Congress sent the stock market plunging, and the decision by Standard & Poor’s to downgrade the country’s credit rating has made matters far worse.

Privatization Follies (9 Jun 2011)

Who will benefit from a second wave of privatisation in Russia?

Europe's Nationalists waiting in the dark (5 May 2011)

As Brussels bureaucrats and established political parties struggle to answer the current crisis caused by a faulty economic structure, right-wing nationalist parties have increasingly come to the fore in Europe, with Finland's recent election the last contribution to a worrying trend.

Link between capitalism and hunger (17 Mar 2011)

Speculation on food commodities causes hunger, despite state regulations; thirty years of liberalization of the food market has resulted in a food crisis on a scale higher than ever.

Radical Retirees (3 Feb 2011)

Russia's youth are much less radical or politically active than Russia's retirees - putting up little resistance as officials gradually encroach upon their rights and entitlements.

Video: Emerging Powers: Allies or Rivals? (21 Jan 2011)

The economic elites are turning to a neoliberal Keynesianism to save the crisis of capitalism, which is doomed to fail because it does not address its root causes.

Global Crisis: A Russian Perspective (20 Jan 2011)

The world systems analysis is failing to explain and respond to the current crisis in global capitalism.

The Return of Fascism (28 Dec 2010)

The logic of Russian fascists has always stood in sharp contrast to the logic and traditions of the development of the nation.

Prokhorov’s Shock Modernization (15 Nov 2010)

The public outrage that was caused by the leakage of a controversial amendment to the Labor Code in Russia might backfire beyond what the unions anticipated.

Norma Rae Would Be Proud (28 Oct 2010)

While intellectuals debate whether Russia has a civil society, union leaders created an organization independent of government control with thousands of members.

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