Kennan Scholar Spotlight: Borders, Smuggling, and the Soviet Shadow Economy

Published: Feb. 3, 2022, 10:08 p.m.

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In this edition of\\xa0Wilson Center NOW, we are joined by Andrey Shlyakhter, Former Title VIII Research Scholar, and Dina Abramowicz Emerging Scholar Fellow in Eastern European Jewish Studies at\\xa0YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. He discusses his Wilson Center project, \\u201cSmuggling Across the Soviet Borders: Contraband Trades, Soviet Solutions, and the Shadow Economic Origins of the Iron Curtain, 1917-1932.\\u201d\\xa0

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