The History Department congratulates Professor Jeff Sahadeo, Director of EURUS, on winning the 2020 Canadian Association of Slavists/Taylor and Francis Book Prize for his book Voices from the Soviet Edge (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019). A short excerpt is provided below, with more details available on the Faculty of Public Affairs announcement.
Sponsored by Taylor and Francis Publishers, the Book Prize was established in 2014 to award the best academic book in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies published in the previous calendar year by a Canadian author.
Voices from the Soviet Edge is authored by Professor Jeff Sahadeo, Director at the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (EURUS). His book tells the story of migrant populations in Leningrad and Moscow.
Through extensive use of oral history interviews, along with archival and published materials, Sahadeo uncovers the fascinating stories from various migrant populations who arrived toward the end of the Soviet era to live and work in these major Russian cities.