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

<p>In this edition of<strong> Wilson Center NOW,</strong> we are joined by <strong>Andrey Shlyakhter,</strong> Former Title VIII Research Scholar, and Dina Abramowicz Emerging Scholar Fellow in Eastern European Jewish Studies at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. He discusses his Wilson Center project, “<a href= "https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/smuggling-across-soviet-borders-interview-title-viii-research-scholar-andrey-shlyakhter" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0">Smuggling Across the Soviet Borders: Contraband Trades, Soviet Solutions, and the Shadow Economic Origins of the Iron Curtain, 1917-1932.” </a></p>