Filip Slaveski

Filip Slaveski hold a PhD in History. He is lecturer in Russian/Soviet and East European History at the College of Arts and Social Sciences of the Australian National University (ANU). He is an historian of the Soviet Empire, primarily of Russia and Ukraine. His work focuses on mass conflict and its aftermath, specifically the intersections of food crises, mass violence and political control and their contemporary echoes.

Areas of expertise: European History

Research interests: Soviet Union, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Siberia, Germany, Balkans. Conflict, Famine, Repression, "Post" Conflict Transition, Nationalism. 

The Project:

Brutal Pasts and Brutal Futures? Ukrainian Society under German, Soviet and Russian Occupation: 1917-2022.

Hosting Institution: Centre d'études des mondes russe, caucasien et centre européen (CERCEC) | UMR 8083 EHESS/CNRS

Selective bibliography

• Slaveski, F. and Shapoval, Y. (2023) Stalin’s Liquidation Game. The unlikely case of Oleksandr Shumsyki. HURI: Harvard University Press. In press.
• Slaveski, F. (2021) Remaking Ukraine after WWII: The clash of central and local Soviet power, 1944-1953. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Slaveski, F. (2013) The soviet occupation of Germany: hunger, mass violence and the struggle for peace, 1945-1947. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Slaveski, F. (2022) ‘Afterword in the East’ in J. Hirst, The Shortest History of Europe. New York: theexperiment publishing.