Horizontal Publishers, LLC (Russian: издательство «горизонталь») is an independent editorial project founded in Moscow in 2018. We are interested in engaged texts on human society that can be useful for giving a new impulse to the tradition of critical thinking in Russia and neighboring countries.
By now, we have published 14 titles:
• Jorge Alemán, "On the Emancipation: Psychoanalysis and Politics", an anthology comprising various texts by the famous Argentinian psychoanalyst;
• Marshall Berman, "All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity";
• Vladimir Lenin, "The State and Revolution"(the book includes the article
"Lenin's «The State and Revolution»" [1970] by Ralph Miliband, published for the first time in Russian, and an
Introduction by Boris Kagarlitsky);
• Maria Rita Kehl, "Time and the Dog: The Actuality of Depressions";
• Maxim Lebskiy, "USSR's Working Class: Life in the Context of Industrial Paternalism", a study by a Russian historian and political activist;
• Ian Parker and David Pavón-Cuéllar, "Psychoanalysis and revolution: critical psychology for liberation movements";
• Alexander Migurskiy, "The Common Personal. 28 Cases of Political Readings of Classic and Contemporary Movies", a collection of essays by a Russian film critic and political activist;
• "Decoloniality: Present and Future", a collection of essays on colonial heritage and subalterns' life in modern Post-Soviet coutries by various scholars, artists and activists;
• John Smith, "Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Superexploitation, and Capitalism's Final Crisis";
• "Biennale of the difficult heritage", the catalog of an exhibition dedicated to the post-war social trauma and its healing;
• Alysson Leandro Mascaro, "State and Political Form";
• Alexander Pavlov, "Bad Movies", a philosopher's essay on a hundred bad movies, affectionately loved by the author;
• Jorge Alemán, "Ideology", an original psychoanalitic perspective on the problems of ideology and capitalism in a post-COVID world;
• Margaret Heffernan, "Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril"You can contact us at
horizontalpub@gmail.com.