Maxim Kantor

Maxim Kantor is a painter, novelist and playwright. His latest novel V tu storonu (In that direction), which explores the parallel between the financial crisis and a malignant tumour, will be published in Russia shortly.

We have made today's Frankenstein with our own hands

When communism ended, Russia’s people wanted democracy. Instead, they got the market and neoliberalism. Now, it appears, some of them want revenge.

By Maxim Kantor

/ 29 Sep 2014

Rise of the lumpen elite: is this really what we fought for?

The great battles waged on behalf of democracy in the 20th century have ended in crisis, proposes the painter and novelist Maxim Kantor. Shares in ‘democracy’ have crashed, while globalisation has led to the rise of a new super-rich lumpen elite which does not even notice that the world is on fire

By Maxim Kantor

/ 24 Oct 2011

Victims of the bulldogs under that carpet

In Maxim Kantor’s opinion, the 39 deaths in the Moscow metro bombings on 29 March are victims of that fight between bulldogs under the carpet, as Churchill described Russian politics. The victims are always the poor, never the bulldogs. And guess who gains by the tragedy?

By Maxim Kantor

/ 31 Mar 2010

Mapping the territory of an impossible love

Beloved, There is no one I can write to except you: Ive lost almost all my friends. The Russian Sphinx. (Click for bigger image) Ive lived a lot

By Maxim Kantor

/ 12 Dec 2001