Ilya Budraitskis

Ilya Budraitskis is a historian, activist and curator based in Moscow, Russia. He is on the editorial boards of several print and online publications, including Moscow Art Magazine, Openleft and LeftEast. With Ekaterina Degot and Marta Dziewanska, Budraitskis co-edited and authored the book Post-Post-Soviet?: Art, Politics and Society in Russia at the Turn of the Decade (University of Chicago Press, 2013). He is also the co-editor and author (with Arseniy Zhilyaev) of the book Pedagogical Poem (Marsilio, 2014).

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Ways of Seeing: Russian Colonialisms (8/8)

The Very Best Day

By Ilya Budraitskis

On March 3rd, 2018, the main pre-election rally for Vladimir Putin took place at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow. Tens of thousands of public sector workers were brought in from

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Ways of Seeing: Russian Colonialisms (2/8)

The Spectres of Munich

By Ilya Budraitskis

This essay is the first in a series entitled Ways of Seeing the New Russian Colonialisms: Writing on and from Post-Soviet Territories, curated by Nikolay Oleynikov for ArtsEverywhere. A series description