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Evgeny Dobrenko is Professor of Russian Literature and Culture at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. He is the author, editor and co-editor of thirty books, including State Laughter: Stalinism, Populism, and Origins of Soviet Culture (2022), Late Stalinism: The Aesthetics of Politics (2020), Museum of the Revolution: Stalinist Cinema and the Production of History (2008), Political Economy of Socialist Realism (2007), Aesthetics of Alienation: Reassessment of Early Soviet Cultural Theories (2005), The Making of the State Writer: Social and Aesthetic Origins of Soviet Literary Culture (2001), The Making of the State Reader: Social and Aesthetic Contexts of the Reception of Soviet Literature (1997), and more than 300 articles and essays which have been translated into ten languages.