Graduate Student Bios

Ilya Slavutskiy is a PhD candidate focusing on Ukraine in the post-Russian Empire revolutionary and civil war periods, with a particular emphasis on the role of the Ukrainian Party of Socialists-Revolutionaries and the soviets of workers', soldiers', and peasants' deputies. He is also interested in Jewish-Ukrainian socialist relations during the revolutionary period, Ukrainian socialists living under Nazi occupation during World War II, and global-Japanese trade history. Ilya received his BA in German from Hunter College, and his MA in History and Master of Library Science at Queens College.