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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.

Personal life[edit]

According to Kagarlitsky, his paternal family descends from Ilya Kagarlitsky, a successful Jewish businessman from the Ukrainian city Kaharlyk. His mother comes from an Orthodox Christian family.[12] He has a daughter, Ksenia.[13]

Thinking Reed: The Intellectuals and the Soviet State 1917 to the Present, , 1989, ISBN 0860919617

Verso Books

The Dialectic of Change, , 1990, ISBN 0860919617

Verso Books

Farewell Perestroika: A Soviet Chronicle, , 1990, ISBN 0860912922

Verso Books

The Disintegration of the Monolith, , 1993, ISBN 0860915735

Verso Books

Square Wheels: How Russian Democracy Got Derailed, , 1994, ISBN 0853458928

Monthly Review Press

Mirage of Modernization, , 1995, ISBN 0853459126

Monthly Review Press

Restoration in Russia: Why Capitalism Failed, , 1995, ISBN 1859849628

Verso Books

Globalization and Its Discontents: The Rise of Postmodern Socialisms, co-edited with Roger Burbach and Orlando Nunez, , 1997, ISBN 0745311709

Pluto Press

New Realism, New Barbarism: Socialist Theory in the Era of Globalization, , 1999, ISBN 0745315569

Pluto Press

The Return of Radicalism: Reshaping the Left Institutions, , 1999, ISBN 0745315917

Pluto Press

The Twilight of Globalization: Property, State and Capitalism, , 2000, ISBN 074531581X

Pluto Press

Russia Under Yeltsin and Putin: Neo-Liberal Autocracy, , 2002, ISBN 0745315070

Pluto Press

The Politics of Empire: Globalisation in Crisis, co-edited with Alan Freeman, , 2004, ISBN 0745321836

Pluto Press

Empire of the Periphery: Russia and the World System, , 2007, ISBN 074532682X

Pluto Press

Back in the USSR (What Was Communism?), , 2009, ISBN 9781906497279

Seagull Books

From Empires to Imperialism: The State and the Rise of Bourgeois Civilisation, , 2014, ISBN 9781138778856

Routledge

Russia, Ukraine and Contemporary Imperialism, , 2019, ISBN 0367231085

Routledge

Between Class and Discourse: Left Intellectuals in Defence of Capitalism, , 2020, ISBN 0367562707

Routledge

The Long Retreat: Strategies to Reverse the Decline of the Left, , 2024, ISBN 9780745350288

Pluto Press