Boris Kagarlitsky Associate

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Boris Kagarlitsky is a well-known international commentator on Russian politics and society and professor at the Moscow Higher School for Social and Economic Sciences founded by Theodor Shanin.

Boris is also the editor of YouTube channel Rabkor, a leading leftist media channel in Russia. In 2022 Russian authorities declared Boris to be a "foreign agent" expecting him to leave the country, but he continues to live and work in Moscow. Boris was a deputy to the Moscow City Soviet between 1990-93. 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), New Realism, New Barbarism: The Crisis of Capitalism (Pluto 1999) and From Empires to Imperialism: the State and the Rise of Bourgeois Civilization (Routledge, 2014).

Latest work

Francia: de República a Oligarquía

Nueva Política

A la ‘Nueva Izquierda’ en Francia se la derrotó o se la integró en el sistema, convirtiéndola en parte del bloque neoliberal. Fue reemplazada por los nuevos rebeldes: una generación menos instruida (debido a la crisis educativa provocada por las reformas neoliberales) de jóvenes parados, cuya única manera de avanzar pasa por la confrontación con las instituciones.

Article by

Boris Kagarlitsky

Publication date: 5 October 2016
France: From Republic to Oligarchy

New Politics

The "New Left" in France was either defeated or integrated into the system, becoming a part of the neo-liberal bloc. It was replaced by the new rebels: the less-educated (due to the education crisis generated by the neo-liberal reforms) generation of unemployed young people, whose only way forward is through a confrontation with the institutions.

Article by

Boris Kagarlitsky

Publication date: 16 June 2016
Corbyn: the non-careerist politician

This summer I was going to meet with Jeremy Corbyn at a conference in Ufa, Russia. He asked for a few days to think it over promising to come unless something unplanned and significant would happen. It did. He was nominated for the leader of the British Labour Party.

Article by

Boris Kagarlitsky

Publication date: 25 September 2015