Boris Kagarlitsky
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 277802 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Boris Kagarlitsky |
| PRENOMES | Boris |
| SOBRENOME | Kagarlitsky |
| ASSINATURA | KAGARLITSKY B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Russian Academy of Sciences |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-6399-3951 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1979 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Situating Russia's Invasion of Ukraine in the Capitalist World-System
The whole world is becoming more like Russia.” A conversation on deglobalization in the wake of the war in Ukraine
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is having profound repercussions for the international system and the global economy. In this conversation, Boris Kagarlitsky, professor at the Moscow School for Social and Economic Sciences and long-standing analyst of Russian society, politics, and the global political economy, discusses the implications of the war on the Russian economy, its financial sector, and the Russian elite. Furthermore, Kagarlitsky analy…
Between Class and Discourse
Russia, Ukraine and Contemporary Imperialism
Carrying on Samir Amin’s legacy
The academic Marxism of the 20th century has shied away from this responsibility, preferring relatively comfortable staying within the walls of universities. Unlike these academic thinkers Samir Amin was one of the few who did not accept this situation. He never considered himself merely a theorist: connection to praxis was vital for him. From this perspective he advocated a project of Fifth International to address sharp and systemic crisis affl…
Carrying on Samir Amin’s Legacy
Kagarlitsky argues, “The global defeat of the left has stimulated rapid corruption and degradation of the capitalist classes and, as a result, has aggravated all the contradictions and problems that the system faces. The collapse of the left movement has given rise to a more acute need for a socialist alternative than ever before in the past 50 years.” Yet, he notes that the situation for building left unity is now rather dire, as few countries h…
Marxism in the Post-Globalization Era
Ukraine and Russia
This paper demonstrates that the international crisis in Ukraine is accompanied not just by a matching domestic Ukrainian crisis, but also one in Russia. Though the crisis in Ukraine is much more severe—including a civil war—the two crises have much in common: both are crises of oligarchic rule, economic dependence on resources and a crisis of social services. Within an overarching narrative of the development of the twin crisis and their interre…
The Conflict in Ukraine and Contemporary Imperialism
In this introduction, we provide an overall framing of the articles that follow by placing the Ukraine conflict which today embroils the West in confrontation with Russia, within an historical account of the geopolitical economy of contemporary capitalism and the dynamics of imperialism in the twenty-first century, taking particular account of the decline of US and Western power and the rise of other centres of economic and military power, which …
Brexit and the Future of the Left
The referendum on British membership in the European Union divided not only the society in the UK but also the left both in Britain and all over the continent. This division however is produced not so much by this specific debate but by a deeper problem of the left capitulating ideologically and accepting neoliberalism as something objectively inevitable (even without publically recognizing it), replacing class struggle by ‘progressive’ cultural …
From Empires to Imperialism
Translated from the original Russian, this book analyzes the economic development of leading European empires and the United States of America. The author exposes the myths of the spontaneous emergence of the market economy and the role of government as a disincentive towards private initiative, when for centuries the state power has been carrying out a "coercing to the market" with all its strength. This book presents a somewhat epic depiction o…
S East and West
Boris Kagarlitsky examines the rise of political dissent in the East and West during the 1960s. The shestidesiatniki (sixties' generation) in the Soviet Union, he argues, have much more in common with the New Left than was realized at the time, or has been acknowledged since. They shared common sources, ideals, and objectives, drawing on Marxist tradition and striving for “socialism with a human face.” Both movements took shape in the relative pr…
The Politics of Empire
Bombs and multiculturalism
New Realism, New Barbarism
The Road to Consumption
The year 1989 was neither the triumph of “civil society” nor a decisive break with the past. Consumerist ambitions cultivated in these societies in the last period of Communist rule, and the growing dependence of these societies on the West made the change of system both logical and easy. People who cried adamantly for more freedom in fact dreamed about Western consumption. They received precisely what they had publicly demanded—Western instituti…
De‐Revising Marx
The Russian economic crisis and the international monetary fund
The Unfinished Revolution
On the topic of the Russian Revolution, it might appear that everythingworth saying has already been said. Both critics and defenders of the revolution repeat again and again what was already being said and written in the 1920s. Throughout the Soviet decades leftists repeatedly cited the pronouncements of
Russia Chooses—and Loses
Essay| October 01 1996 Russia Chooses—and Loses Boris Kagarlitsky Boris Kagarlitsky Boris Kagarlitsky is a Moscow sociologist and political commentator. Arrested by the kgb in 1982for his membership in a dissident socialist group, he was elected in 1990 to the Moscow City Council, where he remained a deputy until the council was dissolved in 1993. His latest book is Restoration in Russia: Why Capitalism Failed (New York: Verso, 1995). This articl…
The Russian Parlimentary Elections
In the weeks after the Russian parliamentary elections of 17 December last year, the view of the results that prevailed in official and businesscircles could be summarized as follows: ‘Nothing terrible has happened, and there won’t be big changes.’ Evidence that this view was shared by the Russian
The Agony of Neo-Liberalism or the End of Civilization
The defeat of neo-liberalism is no longer a question for debate. The triumph of neo-liberalism never occurred, the economic model of the free market is disintegrating before our eyes, and in the countries of Eastern Europe the words and expressions comprising the liberal lexicon have taken on the force of obscenities.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purcha…
The Disintegration of the Monolith
In this book Boris Kagarlitsky offers a trenchant analysis of the break-up of the Soviet Union and the transformation of a section of the old nomenklatura into a new possessing and ruling elite. Kagarlitsky shows that Western commentators have been misled by the street theatre of events like the bungled coup of August 1991 into supposing that a fundamental break has been made with the confused politics and economics of the late Soviet period. He …
The political left and the labor movement in post‐communist Russia
Russia on the Brink of New Battles
When, in August 1991, the world heard the news of the failure of the attempted coup d’état, millions of people across the globe rejoiced at the victory of democracy in Russia. The inhabitants of the country, however, were in a rather less euphoric frame of mind. Although the
The whole world is becoming more like Russia.” A conversation on deglobalization in the wake of the war in Ukraine
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is having profound repercussions for the international system and the global economy. In this conversation, Boris Kagarlitsky, professor at the Moscow School for Social and Economic Sciences and long-standing analyst of Russian society, politics, and the global political economy, discusses the implications of the war on the Russian economy, its financial sector, and the Russian elite. Furthermore, Kagarlitsky analy…
The Disintegration of the Monolith
In this book Boris Kagarlitsky offers a trenchant analysis of the break-up of the Soviet Union and the transformation of a section of the old nomenklatura into a new possessing and ruling elite. Kagarlitsky shows that Western commentators have been misled by the street theatre of events like the bungled coup of August 1991 into supposing that a fundamental break has been made with the confused politics and economics of the late Soviet period. He …
The Dialectic of Change
Brexit and the Future of the Left
The referendum on British membership in the European Union divided not only the society in the UK but also the left both in Britain and all over the continent. This division however is produced not so much by this specific debate but by a deeper problem of the left capitulating ideologically and accepting neoliberalism as something objectively inevitable (even without publically recognizing it), replacing class struggle by ‘progressive’ cultural …
The Road to Consumption
The year 1989 was neither the triumph of “civil society” nor a decisive break with the past. Consumerist ambitions cultivated in these societies in the last period of Communist rule, and the growing dependence of these societies on the West made the change of system both logical and easy. People who cried adamantly for more freedom in fact dreamed about Western consumption. They received precisely what they had publicly demanded—Western instituti…
Situating Russia's Invasion of Ukraine in the Capitalist World-System
Ukraine and Russia
This paper demonstrates that the international crisis in Ukraine is accompanied not just by a matching domestic Ukrainian crisis, but also one in Russia. Though the crisis in Ukraine is much more severe—including a civil war—the two crises have much in common: both are crises of oligarchic rule, economic dependence on resources and a crisis of social services. Within an overarching narrative of the development of the twin crisis and their interre…
S East and West
Boris Kagarlitsky examines the rise of political dissent in the East and West during the 1960s. The shestidesiatniki (sixties' generation) in the Soviet Union, he argues, have much more in common with the New Left than was realized at the time, or has been acknowledged since. They shared common sources, ideals, and objectives, drawing on Marxist tradition and striving for “socialism with a human face.” Both movements took shape in the relative pr…
The Thinking Reed
Feedback Circuit
The Intelligentsia and the Changes
When, in the spring of 1985, the third ceremonial funeral in three years took place in Moscow, most of the intelligentsia were in a state of apathy and pessimism. This was due, not to regret for the passing of the cpsu general secretary, Konstantin Chernenko, but to
Perestroika
To Western observers, Soviet society at the end of the 1970s seemed hopelessly conservative and arguments over the ‘unreformability of Communism’ became commonplace among dissidents and the liberal intellectuals who sympathized with them. Pessimism reigned even among official experts, many of whom, on their own admissiom, ‘had fallen
The Importance of Being Marxist
I hope that the almost Wildean title of my lecture is not misleading. I intend to be totally serious. If there is a place for irony in today’s talk, then it is as one of those ‘ironies of history’ about which Isaac Deutscher wrote so prophetically. I have
The Thinking Reed
The Dialectic of Change
Interview with Boris Kagarlitsky
Farewell Perestroika
A Step to the Left, a Step to the Right
Research Article| April 01 1991 A Step to the Left, a Step to the Right Boris Kagarlitsky Boris Kagarlitsky Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1991) 90 (2): 237–253. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-90-2-237 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Boris Kagarlitsky; A Step to the Left, a Step to the Right. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 April 1…
The Dialectic of Change
The political left and the labor movement in post‐communist Russia
Russia on the Brink of New Battles
When, in August 1991, the world heard the news of the failure of the attempted coup d’état, millions of people across the globe rejoiced at the victory of democracy in Russia. The inhabitants of the country, however, were in a rather less euphoric frame of mind. Although the
The Disintegration of the Monolith
In this book Boris Kagarlitsky offers a trenchant analysis of the break-up of the Soviet Union and the transformation of a section of the old nomenklatura into a new possessing and ruling elite. Kagarlitsky shows that Western commentators have been misled by the street theatre of events like the bungled coup of August 1991 into supposing that a fundamental break has been made with the confused politics and economics of the late Soviet period. He …
Russia Chooses—and Loses
Essay| October 01 1996 Russia Chooses—and Loses Boris Kagarlitsky Boris Kagarlitsky Boris Kagarlitsky is a Moscow sociologist and political commentator. Arrested by the kgb in 1982for his membership in a dissident socialist group, he was elected in 1990 to the Moscow City Council, where he remained a deputy until the council was dissolved in 1993. His latest book is Restoration in Russia: Why Capitalism Failed (New York: Verso, 1995). This articl…
The Russian Parlimentary Elections
In the weeks after the Russian parliamentary elections of 17 December last year, the view of the results that prevailed in official and businesscircles could be summarized as follows: ‘Nothing terrible has happened, and there won’t be big changes.’ Evidence that this view was shared by the Russian
The Agony of Neo-Liberalism or the End of Civilization
The defeat of neo-liberalism is no longer a question for debate. The triumph of neo-liberalism never occurred, the economic model of the free market is disintegrating before our eyes, and in the countries of Eastern Europe the words and expressions comprising the liberal lexicon have taken on the force of obscenities.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purcha…
The Unfinished Revolution
On the topic of the Russian Revolution, it might appear that everythingworth saying has already been said. Both critics and defenders of the revolution repeat again and again what was already being said and written in the 1920s. Throughout the Soviet decades leftists repeatedly cited the pronouncements of
De‐Revising Marx
The Russian economic crisis and the international monetary fund
Bombs and multiculturalism
New Realism, New Barbarism
The Road to Consumption
The year 1989 was neither the triumph of “civil society” nor a decisive break with the past. Consumerist ambitions cultivated in these societies in the last period of Communist rule, and the growing dependence of these societies on the West made the change of system both logical and easy. People who cried adamantly for more freedom in fact dreamed about Western consumption. They received precisely what they had publicly demanded—Western instituti…
The Politics of Empire
S East and West
Boris Kagarlitsky examines the rise of political dissent in the East and West during the 1960s. The shestidesiatniki (sixties' generation) in the Soviet Union, he argues, have much more in common with the New Left than was realized at the time, or has been acknowledged since. They shared common sources, ideals, and objectives, drawing on Marxist tradition and striving for “socialism with a human face.” Both movements took shape in the relative pr…
From Empires to Imperialism
Translated from the original Russian, this book analyzes the economic development of leading European empires and the United States of America. The author exposes the myths of the spontaneous emergence of the market economy and the role of government as a disincentive towards private initiative, when for centuries the state power has been carrying out a "coercing to the market" with all its strength. This book presents a somewhat epic depiction o…
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