Evgeny Dobrenko is Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at the University of Venice. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of twenty-five books, and has published more than 300 articles and essays on Soviet cultural and intellectual history, literature, film, visual arts, architecture, photography, media and music, Socialist Realism, and critical theory, which between them have been translated into ten languages. His books include the monographs State Laughter: Stalinism, Populism, and Origins of Soviet Culture (OUP, 2022), Late Stalinism: The Aesthetics of Politics (Yale UP, 2020) and Stalinist Cinema and the Production of History: Museum of the Revolution (Edinburgh UP, 2008, as well as the edited volumes The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature (with Marina Balina; CUP, 2011), Petrified Utopia: Happiness Soviet Style (with Marina Balina; London: Anthem Press, 2009) and Soviet Culture and Power: A History in Documents, 1917-1953 (with Katerina Clark; Yale UP, 2007, among others.
