Dina Abramowicz Emerging Scholar Fellow in Eastern European Jewish Studies, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Center Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
Smuggling, International Trade
Andrey Shlyakhter is an international historian of the Soviet Union and its neighbors. His research explores the interaction of economics, security, and ideology at state frontiers. Dr. Shlyakhter received his PhD from the University of Chicago in December 2020 with the dissertation “Smuggler States: Poland, Latvia, Estonia, and Contraband Trade Across the Soviet Frontier, 1919-1924,” which was honored with a 2021 _Ab Imperio_ Annual Award. The dissertation informs his postdoctoral book project, _Smuggling Across the Soviet Borders: Contraband Trades, Soviet Solutions, and the Shadow Economic Origins of the Iron Curtain, 1917-1932_.
