Pushkin House Russian Book Prize

The Pushkin House Russian 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 2018 was GBP 5000. 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.

2019

Serhii Plokhy - Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
Taylor Downing - 1983: The World at the Brink
Mark Galeotti - The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia
Ben Macintyre - The Spy and the Traitor
Eleonory Gilburd - To See Paris And Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture
Katja Petrowskaja - Maybe Esther: A Family Story
2018
Alexis Peri - The War Within: Diaries From the Siege of Leningrad
Victoria Lomasko - Other Russias
Rodric Braithwaite - Armageddon and Paranoia: The Nuclear Confrontation
Olivier Rolin - Stalin’s Meteorologist: One Man’s Untold Story of Love, Life, and Death
Yuri Slezkine - The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution
William Taubman - Gorbachev: His Life and Times
2017
Rosalind Blakesley - The Russian Canvas: Painting in Imperial Russia 1757-1881
Teffi - Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea
Daniel Beer - The House of the Dead
Anne Garrels - Putin Country
Simon Morrison - Bolshoi Confidential
Simon Sebag Montefiore - The Romanovs
2016
Dominic Lieven - Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia
Oleg Khlevniuk - Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator
Gabriel Gorodetsky, editor - Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James’s 1932-43
Bobo Lo - Russia and the New World Disorder
Alfred Rieber - Stalin and the Struggle for Supremacy in Eurasia
Robert Service - The End of the Cold War: 1985-1991
2015
Serhii Plokhy - The Last Empire: The final days of the Soviet Union
Peter Finn and Petra Couvée - The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the battle over a forbidden book
Jacek Hugo-Bader - Kolyma Diaries: A Journey into Russia’s haunted hinterland
Catriona Kelly - St Petersburg: Shadows of the past
Stephen Kotkin - Stalin Volume I: Paradoxes of power, 1878-1928
Peter Pomerantsev - Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: The surreal heart of the new Russia
2014
Catherine Merridale - Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History
Vladimir Alexandrov - The Black Russian
Owen Matthews - Glorious Misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of a Russian America
Anya von Bremzen - Mastering The Art of Soviet Cooking
Sheila Fitzpatrick - A Spy in the Archives: a Memoir of Cold War Russia
Stephen Walsh - Mussorgsky and His Circle: a Russian Musical Adventure
2013
Douglas Smith - Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy
Anne Applebaum - Iron Curtain
Masha Gessen -
Thane Gustafson - Wheel of Fortune
Donald Raleigh - Soviet Baby Boomers
Karl Schlögel - Moscow 1937

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