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.[1]

2019
  • Serhii Plokhy - Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe (Penguin) (WINNER)
  • Taylor Downing - 1983: The World at the Brink (Little, Brown Book Group)
  • Mark Galeotti - The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia (Yale University Press)
  • Ben Macintyre - The Spy and the Traitor (Viking)
  • Eleonory Gilburd - To See Paris And Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture (Harvard University Press)
  • Katja Petrowskaja - Maybe Esther: A Family Story (4th Estate)

2018
  • Alexis Peri - The War Within: Diaries From the Siege of Leningrad (Harvard University Press) (WINNER)
  • Victoria Lomasko - Other Russias (translated from the Russian by Thomas Campbell) (Penguin, first published by n+1) (BEST RUSSIAN BOOK IN TRANSLATION)
  • Rodric Braithwaite - Armageddon and Paranoia: The Nuclear Confrontation (Profile Books)
  • Olivier Rolin - Stalin’s Meteorologist: One Man’s Untold Story of Love, Life, and Death (translated from the French by Ros Schwartz) (Penguin)
  • Yuri Slezkine - The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution (Princeton University Press)
  • William Taubman - Gorbachev: His Life and Times (Simon & Schuster)

2017
  • Rosalind Blakesley - The Russian Canvas: Painting in Imperial Russia 1757-1881 (Yale University Press) (WINNER)
  • Teffi - Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea (translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Anne Marie Jackson and Irina Steinberg with an introduction by Edyth C. Haber) (Pushkin Press) (BEST RUSSIAN BOOK IN TRANSLATION)
  • Daniel Beer - The House of the Dead (Allen Lane)
  • Anne Garrels - Putin Country (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  • Simon Morrison - Bolshoi Confidential (Fourth Estate)
  • Simon Sebag Montefiore - The Romanovs (Orion)

2016
  • Dominic Lieven - Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia (Penguin) (WINNER)
  • Oleg Khlevniuk - Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator (translated by Nora Seligman Favorov) (Yale University Press) (BEST RUSSIAN BOOK IN TRANSLATION)
  • Gabriel Gorodetsky, editor - Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James’s 1932-43 (Yale University Press)
  • Bobo Lo - Russia and the New World Disorder (Brookings Institution)
  • Alfred Rieber - Stalin and the Struggle for Supremacy in Eurasia (Cambridge University Press)
  • Robert Service - The End of the Cold War: 1985-1991 (Pan Macmillan)

2015
  • Serhii Plokhy - The Last Empire: The final days of the Soviet Union (Oneworld Publications) (WINNER)
  • Peter Finn and Petra Couvée - The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the battle over a forbidden book (Harvill Secker/Vintage Books)
  • Jacek Hugo-Bader - Kolyma Diaries: A Journey into Russia’s haunted hinterland (translated by Antonia Lloyd Jones) (Portobello Books)
  • Catriona Kelly - St Petersburg: Shadows of the past (Yale University Press)
  • Stephen Kotkin - Stalin Volume I: Paradoxes of power, 1878-1928 (Penguin Press)
  • Peter Pomerantsev - Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: The surreal heart of the new Russia (Faber)

2014
  • Catherine Merridale - Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History (Allen Lane) (WINNER)
  • Vladimir Alexandrov - The Black Russian (Head of Zeus)
  • Owen Matthews - Glorious Misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of a Russian America (Bloomsbury)
  • Anya von Bremzen - Mastering The Art of Soviet Cooking (Transworld)
  • Sheila Fitzpatrick - A Spy in the Archives: a Memoir of Cold War Russia (IB Taurus)
  • Stephen Walsh - Mussorgsky and His Circle: a Russian Musical Adventure (Faber and Faber)

2013
gollark: I feared that #12 was quite obviously me, and it appears that I was pretty correct about this. This information is of course to be used to calibrate what I work on next round.
gollark: I can explain it, but it might be more fun to have someone reverse engineer it.
gollark: +2 +3 -2 or something.
gollark: I think mine is wrong.
gollark: 11 was *sinthÖrion"?!

References
  1. About the prize
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