Boris Kagarlitsky
Boris Yulyevich Kagarlitsky (Russian: Бори́с Ю́льевич Кагарли́цкий; born 29 August 1958) is a Russian Marxist theoretician and sociologist who has been a political dissident in the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. He is an associate of the Transnational Institute.[3] Kagarlitsky is the director of Institute of Globalisation Studies and Social Movements (IGSO)[4] and editor in chief of Levaya Politika (Left Politics) quarterly in Moscow. Kagarlisky hosts a YouTube channel Rabkor, associated with his online newspaper of the same name.[5]
Academic career[edit]
From 1994 to 2002, he was a senior research fellow at the Institute for Comparative Political Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISPRAN). He was awarded his Doctorate degree for his thesis, "Collective Actions and Labour Policies in Russia in the 90s," in 1995, and has taught political science at Moscow State University, the Moscow School for Social and Economic Sciences, and the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.