Name: Boris Kagarlitzky
Position: Fellow / Co-ordinator / Director
Organisation: Transnational Institute (TNI) / TNI Global Crisis project / the Institute of Globalization and Social Movements, Moscow
Brief profile:
- TNI fellow
- Co-ordinator of the TNI Global Crisis project
- Director of the Institute of Globalization and Social Movements in Moscow, that also runs Rabkor
- Boris’s latest books: Empire of the Periphery: Russia and the World System (Pluto Press, February 2008), The Revolt of
the Middle Class (Kulturnaya revolutsiya, 2006) - Winner of the Deutscher Memorial Prize for his book, The Thinking Reed: Intellectuals and the Soviet State (Verso 1988).
- Regular writer of both The Moscow Times and Eurasian Home
- Former student of art criticism and
- Former political prisioner for two years due to ‘anti-Soviet’ activities related to his editorship of a samizdat journal, Leviy Povorot
- Former co-ordinator of the Moscow People’s Front.
- Deputy to the Moscow City Soviet between 1990-93, during which time he was a member of the executive
of the Socialist Party of Russia, co-founder of the Party of Labour, and advisor to the Chairperson of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia - Areas of interest: Russian Political Economy; Globalisation & the Crisis of Capitalism