In a democratically organized state, every political force has the opportunity to bring its ideas and projects to the wider population. Boris Yulievich Kagarlitsky is one of the leaders of the left movement in Russia.
Childhood and youth
Boris Yulievich Kagarlitsky was born on August 28, 1958 in an ordinary Soviet family. Parents lived in Moscow. By their social affiliation belonged to the category of creative intelligentsia. The father of the future dissident studied literature as a phenomenon of human culture. Mother taught students the basics of foreign literature and worked as a translator from English. A child from a young age grew up in an atmosphere of political discussion and creative search. I read a lot.
Boris studied well at school. He actively participated in public life. I did sports. I watched with interest how his peers live, and what goals they set for themselves in the future. Kagarlitsky's biography could have developed according to the traditional scheme. In 1975, having received a certificate of maturity, the young man enters the famous GITIS without much effort. And not because his father professed at this institution. The stock and quality of knowledge that Boris possessed allowed him to become a student of any humanitarian university.
On the warpath
Kagarlitsky was prevented from getting higher education by his hobbies. Unlike their peers, who spent their free time with girls, the son of Soviet intellectuals studied unorthodox works criticizing Marxism. And not only studied, but also shared his thoughts with his comrades. Such behavior did not go unnoticed by the state security system. After calling for interrogation at the KGB, Boris was expelled from the institute for anti-Soviet propaganda.
Repressions by the authorities did not make a proper impression on Kagarlitsky. Rather, the opposite. With renewed vigor and enthusiasm, he set about organizing an illegal circle, whose members advocated the liberation of the working class. In punishment for such “creativity, ” Boris and his comrades in struggle spent more than a year behind bars. After being released by pardon, an embittered dissident hardly found an unskilled job. But he intensively began to write articles and publish them in foreign newspapers and magazines.
