Filip Slaveski and his co-author Yuri Shapoval have been shortlisted for the 2026 Peterson Literary Prize. Their book, Stalin’s Liquidation Game: The Unlikely Case of Oleksandr Shums’kyi, His Survival in Soviet Prison, and His Subsequent Arcane Assassination (Harvard University Press, 2025), unravels the riddle of a Ukrainian Marxist revolutionary and his arrest and incarceration in Stalin's Soviet Union.

Congratulations, Filip and Yuri!