Ilya Budraitskis is a historian, political writer, and curator. He is a member of the editorial board of Moscow Art Magazine, Openleft.ru, and LeftEast, coeditor (with Ekaterina Degot and Marta Dziewanska) and author of Post-Post-Soviet? Art, Politics and Society in Russia at the Turn of the Decade (University of Chicago Press, 2013), and coeditor (with Arseniy Zhilyaev) and author of Pedagogical Poem (Marsilio, 2014).