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.
Honorees +Pushkin House Russian Book Prize winners and shortlistsYearAuthor(s)TitlePublisherResultRef.2013Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy Farrar, Straus and GirouxWinnerIron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956 Allen LaneShortlist Riverhead BooksShortlistWheel of Fortune: The Battle for Oil and Power in Russia Harvard University PressShortlistSoviet Baby Boomers: An Oral History of Russia’s Cold War Generation Oxford University PressShortlistMoscow 1937 PolityShortlist2014Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's HistoryAllen LaneWinnerHead of ZeusShortlistI.B. TaurisShortlistGlorious Misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of a Russian AmericaBloomsburyShortlistAnya von BremzenMastering The Art of Soviet CookingTransworldShortlistMussorgsky and His Circle: a Russian Musical AdventureFaber and FaberShortlist2015Oneworld PublicationsWinner and Petra CouvéeHarvill Secker/Vintage BooksShortlist, trans. by Antonia Lloyd-JonesKolyma Diaries: A Journey into Russia’s Haunted HinterlandPortobello BooksShortlistSt Petersburg: Shadows of the PastYale University PressShortlistStalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928Penguin PressShortlistNothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New RussiaFaber and FaberShortlist2016Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist RussiaPenguin PressWinner (ed.)Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James’s 1932-43Yale University PressShortlist, trans. by Nora Seligman FavorovStalin: New Biography of a DictatorYale University PressShortlistRussia and the New World DisorderBrookings InstitutionShortlistStalin and the Struggle for Supremacy in EurasiaCambridge University PressShortlistPan MacmillanShortlist2017Yale University PressWinnerAllen LaneShortlistPutin Country: A Journey into the Real RussiaFarrar, Straus and GirouxShortlistOrionShortlistBolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Tsars to TodayFourth EstateShortlistTeffi, trans. by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Anne Marie Jackson and Irina Steinberg with an introduction by Edyth C. HaberMemories: From Moscow to the Black SeaPushkin PressShortlist2018Harvard University PressWinnerArmageddon and Paranoia: The Nuclear ConfrontationProfile BooksShortlist, trans. from Russian by Thomas CampbellOther RussiasPenguin (first pub. by N+1) Shortlist, trans. from French by Ros SchwartzStalin’s Meteorologist: One Man’s Untold Story of Love, Life, and DeathPenguinShortlistPrinceton University PressShortlistGorbachev: His Life and TimesSimon & SchusterShortlist2019Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear CatastrophePenguinWinner1983: The World at the BrinkLittle, Brown Book GroupShortlistYale University PressShortlistTo See Paris And Die: The Soviet Lives of Western CultureHarvard University PressShortlistVikingShortlistMaybe Esther: A Family Story4th EstateShortlist2020 PolityWinnerStalin's Scribe: The Life of Mikhail Sholokhov Pegasus BooksShortlistManual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future W. W. Norton & CompanyShortlistFloating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait W. W. Norton & CompanyShortlistAn Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent BloomsburyShortlistThis Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia Cornell University PressShortlist2021 Oxford University PressWinnerPutin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West PicadorShortlistLate Stalinism: The Aesthetics of Politics Yale University PressShortlist Oxford University PressShortlistLeo Tolstoy Reaktion BooksShortlistMoscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin's Capital Princeton University PressShortlist2022Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate Yale University PressWinner and Caroline HumphreyOn the Edge: Life along the Russia-China Border Harvard University PressShortlist, Morvan Lallouet and Ben NobleNavalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future? Oxford University PressShortlistWeak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia Princeton University PressShortlistKlimat: Russia in the Age of Climate Change Harvard University PressShortlistIn Memory of Memory New Directions PublishingShortlistStalin’s Architect: Power and Survival in Moscow MIT PressShortlist Oneworld PublicationsShortlistPlaying with Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina- Pianist in Stalin’s Russia Yale University PressShortlistCollapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union Yale University PressShortlist2023Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin and Russia’s War Against Ukraine MudlarkWinnerRed Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling University of Chicago PressShortlistRussia’s War PolityShortlistPlaces of Tenderness and Heat: The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siècle St. Petersburg Cornell University PressShortlistMuppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia Rowman & Littlefield PublishersShortlistCigarettes and Soviets: Smoking in the USSR Cornell University PressShortlist2024Elena KostyuchenkoI Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country by Elena KostyuchenkoBodley HeadWinnerJulie A. CassidayRussian Style: Performing Gender, Power, and PutinismUniversity of Wisconsin PressShortlistDan HealeyThe Gulag Doctors: Life, Death, and Medicine in Stalin's Labour CampsYale University PressShortlistTom ParfittHigh Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia's Haunted Hinterland Headline Book PublishingShortlistSerhii PlokhyThe Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of HistoryAllen LaneShortlistLaur VallikiviWords and Silences: Nenets Reindeer Herders and Russian Evangelical Missionaries in the Post-Soviet Arctic Indiana University PressShortlist2025Benjamin NathansTo the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident MovementPrinceton University PressWinnerHoward AmosRussia Starts Here: Real Lives in the Ruins of EmpireBloomsbury ContinuumShortlistLucy AshThe Baton and the Cross: Russia's Church from Pagans to PutinIcon BooksShortlistAlexei Navalny, translated by Arch Tait & Stephen Dalziel PatriotBodley HeadShortlistSergey RadchenkoTo Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power Cambridge University PressShortlistDonald Rayfield'A Seditious and Sinister Tribe’ : The Crimean Tatars and Their KhanateReaktion BooksShortlist
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External links Pushkin House Book Prize website