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Pushkin House Russian Book Prize - Wikipedia

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The Pushkin House Book Prize is an annual book prize, awarded to the best non-fiction writing on Russia in the English language. The prize was inaugurated in 2013. The prize amount as of 2020 has been £10,000. The advisory board for the prize is made up of Russia experts including Rodric Braithwaite, Andrew Jack, Bridget Kendall, Andrew Nurnberg, Marc Polonsky, and Douglas Smith.^[1]

Honorees

Pushkin House Russian Book Prize winners and shortlists
Year	Author(s)	Title	Publisher	Result	Ref.
2013^[a]	Douglas Smith	Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy		Winner	^[2]
	Anne Applebaum	Iron Curtain		Shortlist	^[2]
	Masha Gessen	The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin		Shortlist	^[2]
	Thane Gustafson	Wheel of Fortune		Shortlist	^[2]
	Donald Raleigh	Soviet Baby Boomers		Shortlist	^[2]
	Karl Schlögel	Moscow 1937		Shortlist	^[2]
2014^[b]	Catherine Merridale	Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History	Allen Lane	Winner	^[3]
	Vladimir Alexandrov	The Black Russian	Head of Zeus	Shortlist	^[3]
	Sheila Fitzpatrick	A Spy in the Archives: a Memoir of Cold War Russia	I.B. Tauris	Shortlist	^[3]
	Owen Matthews	Glorious Misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of a Russian America	Bloomsbury	Shortlist	^[3]
	Anya von Bremzen	Mastering The Art of Soviet Cooking	Transworld	Shortlist	^[3]
	Stephen Walsh	Mussorgsky and His Circle: a Russian Musical Adventure	Faber and Faber	Shortlist	^[3]
2015^[c]	Serhii Plokhy	The Last Empire: The final days of the Soviet Union	Oneworld Publications	Winner	^[4]
	Peter Finn and Petra Couvée	The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the battle over a forbidden book	Harvill Secker/Vintage Books	Shortlist	^[4]
	Jacek Hugo, trans. by Antonia Lloyd-Jones	Bader- Kolyma Diaries: A Journey into Russia’s haunted hinterland	Portobello Books	Shortlist	^[4]
	Catriona Kelly	St Petersburg: Shadows of the past	Yale University Press	Shortlist	^[4]
	Stephen Kotkin	Stalin Volume I: Paradoxes of power,1878-1928	Penguin Press	Shortlist	^[4]
	Peter Pomerantsev	Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia	Faber and Faber	Shortlist	^[4]
2016^[d]	Dominic Lieven	Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia	Penguin Press	Winner	^[5]
	Gabriel Gorodetsky (ed.)	Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James’s 1932-43	Yale University Press	Shortlist	^[5]
	Oleg Khlevniuk, trans. by Nora Seligman Favorov	Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator^[e]	Yale University Press	Shortlist	^[5]
	Bobo Lo	Russia and the New World Disorder	Brookings Institution	Shortlist	^[5]
	Alfred Rieber	Stalin and the Struggle for Supremacy in Eurasia	Cambridge University Press	Shortlist	^[5]
	Robert Service	The End of the Cold War: 1985-1991	Pan Macmillan	Shortlist	^[5]
2017^[f]	Rosalind Blakesley	The Russian Canvas: Painting in Imperial Russia 1757-1881	Yale University Press	Winner	^[6]
	Daniel Beer	The House of the Dead	Allen Lane	Shortlist	^[6]
	Anne Garrels	Putin Country	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	Shortlist	^[6]
	Simon Sebag Montefiore	The Romanovs	Orion	Shortlist	^[6]
	Simon Morrison	Bolshoi Confidential	Fourth Estate	Shortlist	^[6]
	Teffi, trans. by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Anne Marie Jackson and Irina Steinberg with an introduction by Edyth C. Haber	Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea^[g]	Pushkin Press	Shortlist	^[6]
2018^[h]	Alexis Peri	The War Within: Diaries From the Siege of Leningrad	Harvard University Press	Winner	^[7]
	Rodric Braithwaite	Armageddon and Paranoia: The Nuclear Confrontation	Profile Books	Shortlist	^[7]
	Victoria Lomasko, trans. from Russian by Thomas Campbell	Other Russias^[i]	Penguin (first pub. by N+1)	Shortlist	^[7]
	Olivier Rolin, trans. from French by Ros Schwartz	Stalin’s Meteorologist: One Man’s Untold Story of Love, Life, and Death	Penguin	Shortlist	^[7]
	Yuri Slezkine	The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution	Princeton University Press	Shortlist	^[7]
	William Taubman	Gorbachev: His Life and Times	Simon & Schuster	Shortlist	^[7]
2019^[j]	Serhii Plokhy	Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe	Penguin	Winner	^[8]
	Taylor Downing	1983: The World at the Brink	Little, Brown Book Group	Shortlist	^[8]
	Mark Galeotti	The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia	Yale University Press	Shortlist	^[8]
	Eleonory Gilburd	To See Paris And Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture	Harvard University Press	Shortlist	^[8]
	Ben Macintyre	The Spy and the Traitor	Viking	Shortlist	^[8]
	Katja Petrowskaja	Maybe Esther: A Family Story	4th Estate	Shortlist	^[8]
2020^[k]	Sergei Medvedev	The Return of the Russian Leviathan		Winner	^[9]^[10]
	Brian Boeck	Stalin's Scribe: The Life of Mikhail Sholokhov		Shortlist	^[9]
	Kate Brown	Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future		Shortlist	^[9]
	Bathsheba Demuth	Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait		Shortlist	^[9]
	Owen Matthews	An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent		Shortlist	^[9]
	Joan Neuberger	This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia		Shortlist	^[9]
2021^[l]	Archie Brown	The Human Factor		Winner
	Catherine Belton	Putin’s People		Shortlist
	Evgeny Dobrenko	Late Stalinism		Shortlist
	Jonathan Schneer	The Lockhart Plot		Shortlist
	Andrei Zorin	Leo Tolstoy		Shortlist
	Katherine Zubovich	Moscow Monumental		Shortlist
2022^[m]	Mary Sarotte	Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate		Winner	^[12]^[13]
	Frank Billé and Caroline Humphrey	On the Edge: Life along the Russia-China Border		Shortlist	^[14]
	Jan Matti Dollbaum	Morvan Lallouet and Ben Noble- Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future?		Shortlist
	Timothy Frye	Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia		Shortlist	^[15]
	Thane Gustafson	Klimat: Russia in the Age of Climate Change		Shortlist	^[16]
	Maria Stepanova	In Memory of Memory		Shortlist	^[17]
	Deyan Sudjic	Stalin’s Architect: Power and Survival in Moscow		Shortlist	^[18]
	Lucy Ward	The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus		Shortlist	^[19]
	Elizabeth Wilson	Playing with Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina- Pianist in Stalin’s Russia		Shortlist	^[20]
	Vladislav Zubok	Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union		Shortlist	^[21]
2023^[n]	Owen Matthews	Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin and Russia’s War Against Ukraine		Winner	^[22]
	Ryan Tucker Jones	Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling		Shortlist	^[23]^[24]
	Jade McGlynn	Russia’s War		Shortlist	^[23]^[24]
	Olga Petri	Places of Tenderness and Heat: The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siècle St. Petersburg		Shortlist	^[23]^[24]
	Natasha Lance Rogoff	Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia		Shortlist	^[23]^[24]
	Tricia Starks	Cigarettes and Soviets: Smoking in the USSR	NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies	Shortlist	^[23]^[24]
2024	Elena Kostyuchenko	I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country by Elena Kostyuchenko		Winner	^[25]^[26]
	Julie A. Cassiday	Russian Style: Performing Gender, Power, and Putinism		Shortlist	^[26]
	Dan Healey	The Gulag Doctors: Life, Death, and Medicine in Stalin's Labour Camps		Shortlist	^[26]
	Tom Parfitt	High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia's Haunted Hinterland		Shortlist	^[26]
	Serhii Plokhy	The Russo-Ukrainian War		Shortlist	^[26]
	Laur Vallikivi	Words and Silences: Nenets Reindeer Herders and Russian Evangelical Missionaries in the Post-Soviet Arctic		Shortlist	^[26]

Notes

^ The 2013 judges were Sir Rodric Braithwaite, A.D. Miller, Rachel Polonsky, Lord Robert Skidelsky, and Dmitri V. Trenin.
^ The 2014 judging panel was chaired by Dr. Rowan Williams and included Boris Akunin, Viv Groskop, Catriona Kelly, and Douglas Smith.
^ The 2015 judges were Lord Browne of Madingley, Dmitry Bykov, Varya Gornostaeva, Bridget Kendall, and Catherine Merridale.
^ The 2016 judges were Geoffrey Hosking, Anne McElvoy, Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky, and Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill.
^ Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator was named the Best Russian Book in Translation.
^ The 2017 judging panel was chaired by Simon Franklin and included Anne Applebaum, Petr Aven, Dominic Lieven, and Charlotte Hobson.
^ Memories was named the year's best Russian book in translation.
^ The 2018 judging panel was chaired by Nick Clegg and included Rosalind Blakesley, Oleg Budnitsky, Dervla Murphy, and John Thornhill.
^ Other Russias was named the year's best Russian book in translation.
^ The 2019 judging panel was chaired by Sergey Guriyev and included Rachel Campbell-Johnson, Alexander Drozdov, Alexis Peri, and Andrei Zorin.
^ The 2020 judges were Serhii Plokhy, Celestine Bohlen, Julia Safronova, and Richard Wright.
^ The 2021 judges were Fiona Hill, Declan Donnellan, Sergei Medvedev, George Robertson, and Maria Stepanova.
^ The 2022 judges were Evgenia Arbugaeva, Baroness Deborah Bull, Archie Brown (historian), Dmitry Glukhovsky, Ekaterina Schulmann.^[11]
^ The 2023 judges were Ekaterina Schulmann, Philip Bullock, Masha Gessen, Alexander Rodnyansky, and Mary Elise Sarotte.

References

^ "About the prize".
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Book Prize 2013". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Book Prize 2014". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Book Prize 2015". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Book Prize 2016". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Book Prize 2017". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Book Prize 2018". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Book Prize 2019". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Book Prize 2020". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
^ Berdy, Michele A. (2020-10-30). "Sergei Medvedev's "The Return of the Russian Leviathan" Wins 2020 Pushkin House Book Prize". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
^ Times, The Moscow (2022-01-27). "Pushkin House Gets Ready for Its 10th Anniversary Book Prize". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2022-02-01.
^ "История расширения НАТО и русско-еврейская семейная хроника: в Лондоне выбрали лучшие книги о России". BBC News Русская служба (in Russian). Retrieved 2022-10-13.
^ "2022 Pushkin House Book Prize Awarded to Mary Sarotte". The Moscow Times. 2022-09-29. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
^ Couch, Emily (2022-07-17). "'On The Edge: Life Along the Russia-China Border'". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
^ Sorokina, Yanina (2022-09-04). "Timothy Frye's 'Weak Strongman' Overturns the Putin Myth". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
^ Berkhead, Samantha (2022-08-14). "'Klimat': A Look at Russia's Looming Climate Reckoning". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
^ "Maria Stepanova's 'In Memory of Memory'". The Moscow Times. 2022-09-25. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
^ Couch, Emily (2022-08-21). "'Stalin's Architect: Power and Survival in Moscow'". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
^ Berdy, Michele A. (2022-07-31). "Lucy Ward Investigates 'The Empress and the English Doctor'". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
^ Amos, Howard (2022-09-18). "Elizabeth Wilson Chronicles the Miraculous Life of Maria Yudina". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
^ "Pushkin House 10th Annual Book Prize Shortlists Ten Books". The Moscow Times. 2022-06-06. Retrieved 2022-06-08.
^ "Pushkin House Prize Awarded to Owen Matthews for 'Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin's War Against Ukraine'". The Moscow Times. 2023-06-16. Retrieved 2023-06-20.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Pushkin House Announces Short List for 2023 Book Prize". The Moscow Times. 2023-04-27. Retrieved 2023-06-20.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "2023 shortlist". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2023-06-20.
^ Berdy, Michele A. (2024-06-14). "2024 Pushkin House Book Prize Awarded to Elena Kostyuchenko for 'I Love Russia: Reporting From a Lost Country'". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2024-07-25.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Book Prize 2024 Shortlist". Pushkin House Shop. Retrieved 2024-07-25.

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