lya Kalinin is a professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics at Saint Petersburg State University. His researches focus on early Soviet Russia intellectual and cultural history, practices of self-fashioning of Soviet Subject and the historical and cultural politics of contemporary Russia. He has published in a wide range of journals including Ab Imperio, Baltic Worlds, Sign Systems Studies, Social Sciences, Russian Literature, Russian Studies, Russian Studies in Literature, Slavonica, Wiener Slawistischer Almanach and New Literary Observer. His book “History as Art of Articulation. Russian Formalists and Revolution” is forthcoming from New Literary Observer Publishing House (Moscow). Ph.D. Saint Petersburg State University.