Chto Delat (What is to be done?) is a collective founded in 2003 in Petersburg by a workgroup of artists, critics, philosophers, and writers with the goal of merging political theory, art, and activism. The name of the group derives from a novel by the Russian nineteenth-century writer Nikolai Chernyshevsky, and immediately brings to mind the first socialist worker’s self-organizations in Russia, which Lenin actualized in his own publication “What is to be done?” (1902). Chto Delat sees itself as an artistic cell and also as a community organizer for a variety of cultural activities intent on politicizing knowledge production. The activity of the collective takes responsibility for a post-socialist condition and the actualization of the forgotten and repressed potentiality of the Soviet past, and often works as a politics of commemoration.