Boris Kagarlitsky

Patrick Bond

Renfrey Clarke

Long Retreat - Strategies to Reverse the Decline of the Left

"This book is a unique contribution to scholarship on the sources of the conflict in Ukraine. The volume brings together writers from Russia, Ukraine, Canada, the United States, Europe and Australia, many of whom attended a gathering of scholars and activists from all over Ukraine, held in Yalta, Crimea, just after the conflict in Eastern Ukraine erupted. Challenging both the demonization of Russia, which has become standard for Western writing on the topic, and the simplistic discourse of official Russian sources, this book scrutinises the events of the conflict and the motives of the agents, bringing to the fore the underlying causes of the most critical flashpoints of the post-Soviet world order. This volume offers a refreshing, profound perspective on the Ukraine conflict, and will be an indispensable source for any student or researcher.This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal International Critical Thought. "--Provided by publisher.

Russia, Ukraine and Contemporary Imperialism

Alan Freeman

Radhika Desai

This book is a unique contribution to scholarship on the sources of the conflict in Ukraine. The volume brings together writers from Russia, Ukraine, Canada, the United States, Europe and Australia, many of whom attended a gathering of scholars and activists from all over Ukraine, held in Yalta, Crimea, just after the conflict in Eastern Ukraine erupted. Challenging both the demonization of Russia, which has become standard for Western writing on the topic, and the simplistic discourse of official Russian sources, this book scrutinises the events of the conflict and the motives of the agents, bringing to the fore the underlying causes of the most critical flashpoints of the post-Soviet world order. This volume offers a refreshing, profound perspective on the Ukraine conflict, and will be an indispensable source for any student or researcher. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal International Critical Thought.

Boris Ju Kagarlickij

Leading Marxist thinkers re-evaluate Trotsky's key theories -- an ideal introduction for students.

Neo-Liberal Autocracy

Russia Under Yeltsin And Putin

'Küreselleşme', insanlığın refah, adalet ve barış çağı olarak ilan edilmişti. Peki, aradan geçen yıllarda 'küreselleşme' nasıl bir seyir izledi? Pek çok akademisyenin saptadığına göre, 'küreselleşme', 2000'li yılların başında bir kriz aşamasına girmişti. Bu geçici bir kriz olmadığı gibi, şu ya da bu uygulamadan değil, küreselleşme sürecinin kendisinden kaynaklanıyordu ve küreselleşmecilerin bu zorlukları aşabileceklerine dair bir belirti de yoktu. Bu olgulardan bazı sonuçlar çıkarılıyordu: Küreselleşme sadece adaletsiz değil aynı zamanda sürdürülemez de olabilirdi. Pek çok kişi yeni olayların küreselleşmenin sonunu yakınlaştırdığını düşünürken bazıları küreselleşmenin aslında hiç var olmadığını öne sürüyordu... Gerçek ne olursa olsun, küresel adalet ve barış hareketleri, tarihin yeni bir safhasıyla karşı karşıyaydı ve kendilerini bekleyen görevlerin derin bir analizini yapmalıydılar. Kendileri de küreselleşme karşıtı hareketler içinde yer alan bir grup yazar, bu ihtiyacı gözeterek, bugün dünyada neler olup bittiğini inceden inceye tahlil etmek, 'küreselleşme' diye bir şeyin olup olmadığını, neden ve ne ölçüde başarısızlığa uğradığını, sonuçlarının neler olduğunu, bu sürecin nereye doğru evrildiğini ve bütün bunların küresel adalet arayanlar için ne gibi olanaklar ve zorluklar sunduğunu ortaya koymak üzere bu kitabı oluşturdular: Deneyimlerden beslenen özgüvenli bir değişim hareketinin sesi olmak için...

Küreselleşmenin Krizi

Traces the intellectual history of modern Russia, looks at the changing attitudes of the Soviet government towards the intellectuals, and discusses the new policy of glasnot openness

Intellectuals and the Soviet State 1917 to the Present

The Thinking Reed

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 analyses the ill-considered and self-interested attempts made by the nomenklatura to privatize assets and inaugurate a free-market economy, finding an essential continuity between the plans of Gorbachev's and Yeltsin's advisers. He reveals, too, how the new Russian President has displayed a greater capacity to assert dictatorial powers than did the last General Secretary, a tendency which has brought him into repeated conflict with elected bodies. Boris Kagarlitsky is himself a Socialist member of the Moscow Soviet and one of the founders of Russia's new Party of Labour. The Disintegration of the Monolith furnishes both a memorable indictment of the greed and irresponsibility of Russia's new/old rulers and a fascinating account of the slow but unmistakeable awakening of forces of resistance as the peoples of Russia and the other states of the former Soviet Union confront the hyper-inflation, shortages, unemployment and general havoc wreaked by the free-market experiment. Kagarlitsky describes the gradual emergence of a new Russian trade unionism, but warns that popular discontent is also being exploited by nationalist demagogues, such as the leader of Russia's new Liberal Party. For those seeking to understand what has changed in Russia—and what has remained the same—The Disintegration of the Monolith is required reading.

The Disintegration of the Monolith

Boris Ûlʹevič Kagarlickij

A damning critique of the post-modernist Left and neo-liberalism that explores what role the Left must play in the future.

Boris Kagarlitsky

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