Dr Filip Slaveski

I’m an historian of the Soviet Empire, primarily of Russia and Ukraine. My work focuses on mass conflict and its aftermath, specifically food crises, mass violence and political control and their contemporary echoes.

Selected Publications:

Books:

Slaveski, F. and Shapoval, Y. (2025) Stalin’s Liquidation Game. The unlikely case of Oleksandr Shumsyki. HURI: Harvard University Press. In press. (ARC DECRA outcome)

Slaveski, F. (2021) Remaking Ukraine after WWII: The clash of central and local Soviet power, 1944-1953. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (ARC DECRA outcome)

Slaveski, F. (2013) The soviet occupation of Germany: hunger, mass violence and the struggle for peace, 1945-1947. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Book Chapters:

Wheatcroft, S. G. and Slaveski, F. (2025) ‘The Political History of Soviet Famines, 1917-1947’, in Ingrid de Zwarte and Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco (eds.) The Politics of Famine in European History and Memory (Routledge, 2025) in press.

Slaveski, F., Shapoval, I. and Casu, I. (2025) ‘Centre-Periphery Relations in the Soviet Post-War Famine of 1946-1947’ in Ingrid de Zwarte and Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco (eds.) The Politics of Famine in European History and Memory (Routledge, 2025) in press.

Slaveski, F. (2022) ‘Afterword in the East’ in J. Hirst, The Shortest History of Europe. New York: theexperiment publishing. 

Slaveski, F. (2013) ‘The occupiers' burden: tackling food shortage and related health problems in post-war Germany, 1945-47’, in Lumey, L. H. and Vaiserman, A. (eds.) Early Life Nutrition, Adult Health, and Development: Lessons from Changing Dietary Patterns, Famines, and Experimental Studies. New York: Nova.

Refereed Journal Articles:

Edele, M. and Slaveski, F. (2016)’ Violence from below: explaining crimes against civilians in the soviet space, 1943-1947’, Europe-Asia Studies, 68-6, pp. 1020-1035. (ARC DECRA outcome).

Slaveski, F. (2008) ‘Violence and xenophobia as means of social control in times of collapse: The soviet occupation of post-war Germany, 1945-1947’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, 54 (3), pp. 389-402.

Slaveski, F. (2008) ‘Competing occupiers: bloody conflicts between soviet and Polish authorities in the borderlands of post-war Germany and Poland, 1945-46’, New Zealand Slavonic Journal, 42, pp. 137-55.

PhD History

Soviet Union, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Siberia, Germany, Balkans. 

Conflict, Famine, Repression, "Post" Conflict Transition, Nationalism.