This is Jacobin Radio, I'm Suzy Weisman. On today's program we bring you the UCLA

colloquium organized and moderated by the Center for Social Theory and

Comparative Histories Robert Brenner, who's also our executive producer. The

panel titled the Political Economy of Russian Sworn Ukraine Featured in order

these speakers, Boris Kogrelitsky, Ilya Budrytskyz, Ilya Matveyev, and yours

Trulis, Suzy Weisman, followed by a lively Q&A. We bring it to you today when our

program returns in just a moment.

All right, my name is Bob Brenner. I'd like to welcome everyone to this session of

the annual colloquium series of the Center for Social Theory and Comparative

History. The annual series is on the political economy of rising authoritarianism

and this session is on Russia and the invasion of Ukraine. Most of the people

here don't really need to be told there's a war going on and we're going to

be hearing about that from the discussants. So very quickly the presenters will

be in the following order, Boris Kogrelitsky, Ilya Budrytskyz, Ilya Matveyev,

and Suzy Weisman. So our first presenter today on the political economy of

Russia's war in Ukraine is Boris Kogrelitsky, who we've had the good fortune to have here

in a number of occasions before and it's great to be able to introduce him again

today, an old friend as well as a intellectual political co-reader colleague. Boris is

professor at the Moscow School for Social and Economic Sciences. He is editor of Rob

Kor, which you can find online on YouTube. That's an online journal. He was a deputy to the

Moscow City Soviet between 1990 to 1993 during which time he was a member of the executive

committee of the Socialist Party of Russia. He was a co-founder of the party of labor in Russia

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