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, his Survival in soviet prison and his subsequent arcane assassination. Cambridge Mass.: Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies. (ARC DECRA outcome). 

https://books.huri.harvard.edu/news/exclusive-pre-release-sale-stalin-s-liquidation-game-by-filip-slaveski-and-yurii-shapoval

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.

Forthcoming:

Slaveski, F. and Shapoval, Y. The Secret Police in the Last Soviet Famine: Ukraine 1946/47 (Kyiv: HDA SBU/Ukrainian National Institute of Remembrance) contract, 4.4.26. 

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). (ARCDP21 outcome).

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). (ARCDP21 outcome).

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:

Shapoval, Y. and Slaveski, F. 'Misiya Lazarya Kahanovycha v Ukrayini pid chas holodu 1946-1947 rokiv’, Ukrains’kyi istorychnyi zhurnal, vol. 2 (585). (ARCDP21 outcome).

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.

Forthcoming:

Penter, Tanja and Slaveski, Filip. ‘“Famine of the Victors:” The Last Soviet Famine of 1946/47’ in ‘Wartime and Post-War Famine in the Soviet Union, 1941-1948’, ed. Penter, T. and Slaveski, F., Special Issue, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas (forthcoming 2027). 

Slaveski, Filip, ‘The Wartime Roots of Postwar Famine in the Soviet Union, 1946/47’, in ‘Wartime and Post-War Famine in the Soviet Union, 1941-1948’, ed. Penter, T and Slaveski, F., Special Issue, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas (forthcoming 2027).

PhD History

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

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