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Andrey Shlyakhter is the 2024-2025 Petro Jacyk Post-Doctoral Fellow in Ukrainian Politics, Culture and Society at the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (CERES) within the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. A historian of the Soviet Union and its neighbors, his research examines the intersection of economics, security, and ideology at state frontiers during the early Soviet period.
Dr. Shlyakhter earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago in December 2020. His dissertation, "Smuggler States: Poland, Latvia, Estonia, and Contraband Trade Across the Soviet Frontier, 1919-1924," received the 2021 Ab Imperio Annual Award and was a finalist for the 2022 Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History.
His research focuses on Soviet border policies, contraband networks, and famine dynamics, with current projects analyzing the 1926 Soviet campaign against contraband (linking currency inconvertibility to Stalin's industrialization) and survival patterns during the Holodomor in Ukraine's western border districts. He draws on multi-archival research from Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, supplemented by witness testimonies and GIS mapping.
Dr. Shlyakhter's scholarly contributions have been recognized through:
- 2021 Ab Imperio Annual Award
- 2022 Herman E. Krooss Prize finalist
- Tel Aviv University Fellowship
- Kennan Institute Fellowship (awarded twice)
- YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Fellowship
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Fellowship
His work has been funded by the Social Science Research Council, Fulbright-Hays Program, International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), Carnegie Corporation of New York, Business History Conference, and Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. He teaches courses including "Topics in Ukraine: Debating the Holodomor" (ERE1195HS) and has an article under peer review at the Journal of Modern History titled "Backs to the USSR: Explaining the Genesis, Growth, and Geography of the Soviet Border Guard, 1918-1939."
