Pushkin House Russian Book Prize

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[lower-alpha 1] 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[lower-alpha 2] 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 IB Taurus 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[lower-alpha 3] 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[lower-alpha 4] 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[lower-alpha 5] 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[lower-alpha 6] 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[lower-alpha 7] Pushkin Press Shortlist [6]
2018[lower-alpha 8] 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[lower-alpha 9] 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[lower-alpha 10] 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[lower-alpha 11] 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[lower-alpha 12] 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[lower-alpha 13] 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[lower-alpha 14] 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]

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

References
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  2. "Book Prize 2013". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  3. "Book Prize 2014". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  4. "Book Prize 2015". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  5. "Book Prize 2016". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  6. "Book Prize 2017". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  7. "Book Prize 2018". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  8. "Book Prize 2019". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  9. "Book Prize 2020". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  10. 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.
  11. Times, The Moscow (2022-01-27). "Pushkin House Gets Ready for Its 10th Anniversary Book Prize". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2022-02-01.
  12. "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.
  13. "2022 Pushkin House Book Prize Awarded to Mary Sarotte". The Moscow Times. 2022-09-29. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
  14. Couch, Emily (2022-07-17). "'On The Edge: Life Along the Russia-China Border'". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
  15. Sorokina, Yanina (2022-09-04). "Timothy Frye's 'Weak Strongman' Overturns the Putin Myth". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
  16. Berkhead, Samantha (2022-08-14). "'Klimat': A Look at Russia's Looming Climate Reckoning". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
  17. "Maria Stepanova's 'In Memory of Memory'". The Moscow Times. 2022-09-25. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
  18. Couch, Emily (2022-08-21). "'Stalin's Architect: Power and Survival in Moscow'". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
  19. Berdy, Michele A. (2022-07-31). "Lucy Ward Investigates 'The Empress and the English Doctor'". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
  20. Amos, Howard (2022-09-18). "Elizabeth Wilson Chronicles the Miraculous Life of Maria Yudina". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
  21. "Pushkin House 10th Annual Book Prize Shortlists Ten Books". The Moscow Times. 2022-06-06. Retrieved 2022-06-08.
  22. "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.
  23. "Pushkin House Announces Short List for 2023 Book Prize". The Moscow Times. 2023-04-27. Retrieved 2023-06-20.
  24. "2023 shortlist". Pushkin House. Retrieved 2023-06-20.
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