Boris Kagarlitsky
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Борис Кагарлицкий | |
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Boris Yulyevich Kagarlitsky (
Political activities
Soviet Union
In the 1970s, he studied theatre criticism at the
In 1988 he published his book, The Thinking Reed: Intellectuals and the Soviet State From 1917 to the Present, which won the Deutscher Memorial Prize.
In 1988, after the rise of
Russian Federation
He co-founded the Party of Labour (Russia) in October 1992. In October 1993, the former Soviet dissident was arrested, with two other members of his party, for his opposition to President Boris Yeltsin during the September–October constitutional crisis, but was released the next day after international protests. Later that year, his job and the Moscow City Soviet were abolished under Yeltsin's new constitution. The events and his experiences during this momentous period are documented in his book, Square Wheels: How Russian Democracy Got Derailed. His 2005 historical essay Marxism: not recommended for teaching. was criticized by Mikhail Vasilyevich Popov.[6]
In 2022 Kagarlitsky was designated a
In February 2024 his sentence was changed to 5 years detention in a prison colony.[10]
After his arrest in 2023 the Kagarlitsky Solidarity Committee was formed and signed by public and political figures around the world:
Academic career
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
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]
Books in English
- Thinking Reed: The Intellectuals and the Soviet State 1917 to the Present, ISBN 0860919617
- The Dialectic of Change, ISBN 0860919617
- Farewell Perestroika: A Soviet Chronicle, ISBN 0860912922
- The Disintegration of the Monolith, ISBN 0860915735
- Square Wheels: How Russian Democracy Got Derailed, ISBN 0853458928
- Mirage of Modernization, ISBN 0853459126
- Restoration in Russia: Why Capitalism Failed, ISBN 1859849628
- Globalization and Its Discontents: The Rise of Postmodern Socialisms, co-edited with Roger Burbach and Orlando Nunez, ISBN 0745311709
- New Realism, New Barbarism: Socialist Theory in the Era of Globalization, ISBN 0745315569
- The Return of Radicalism: Reshaping the Left Institutions, ISBN 0745315917
- The Twilight of Globalization: Property, State and Capitalism, ISBN 074531581X
- Russia Under Yeltsin and Putin: Neo-Liberal Autocracy, ISBN 0745315070
- The Politics of Empire: Globalisation in Crisis, co-edited with Alan Freeman, ISBN 0745321836
- Empire of the Periphery: Russia and the World System, ISBN 074532682X
- Back in the USSR (What Was Communism?), ISBN 9781906497279
- From Empires to Imperialism: The State and the Rise of Bourgeois Civilisation, ISBN 9781138778856
- Russia, Ukraine and Contemporary Imperialism, ISBN 0367231085
- Between Class and Discourse: Left Intellectuals in Defence of Capitalism, ISBN 0367562707
References
- ^ "Who is Boris Kagarlitsky?". www.kagarlitsky.narod.ru.
- ^ "Empire of the periphery". 12 September 2008.
- ^ "Boris Kagarlitsky | Transnational Institute". www.tni.org. 2023-07-13. Retrieved 2023-07-27.
- ^ Institute of Globalisation Studies and Social Movements.
- ^ "Homepage Boris Kagarlizki". Retrieved 2024-02-20.
- ^ "Фонд Рабочей Академии — КАГАРЛИЦИЗМ ВМЕСТО МАРКСИЗМА".
- ^ a b "Prominent Kremlin critic Boris Kagarlitsky detained for 'calling for terrorism' online". Euronews. 27 July 2023. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
- ^ "Russia opens criminal case against sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky for 'justifying terrorism'". Novaya Gazeta Europe. 2023-07-25. Retrieved 2023-07-25.
- ^ "Суд не стал сажать в колонию социолога Бориса Кагарлицкого — ему назначили штраф". BBC News Русская служба (in Russian). 2023-12-12. Retrieved 2023-12-12.
- ^ "Социологу Борису Кагарлицкому ужесточили приговор — вместо штрафа ему назначили пять лет колонии". Meduza (in Russian). Retrieved 13 February 2024.
- ^ "Freedom for Boris Kagarlitsky: Solidarity with Antiwar Activists". 2023-09-11. Retrieved 2024-02-20.
- ^ "Шотландское наследие Бориса Кагарлицкого" ["Scottish heritage of Boris Kagarlitsky]. Jewish.Ru (in Russian). Retrieved 27 July 2023.
- ^ ""Он всегда был осторожен" Бориса Кагарлицкого, одного из самых известных левых мыслителей России, обвиняют в "призывах к терроризму" — ему грозит семь лет тюрьмы. Мы поговорили с его дочерью Ксенией" ["He was always careful." Boris Kagarlitsky, one of the most well-known leftist thinkers of Russia, is accused of "calls to terrorism", and may face up to seven years in prison. We spoke to his daughter, Ksenia]. Meduza (in Russian). Retrieved 27 July 2023.