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

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW, Andrey Shlyakhter discusses his Wilson Center project, “Smuggling Across the Soviet Borders: Contraband Trades, Soviet Solutions, and the Shadow Economic Origins of the Iron Curtain, 1917-1932.”

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