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 2020 was £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]

2020

Judges: Serhii Plokhy, Celestine Bohlen, Julia Safronova, and Richard Wright.

  • Sergei Medvedev - The Return of the Russian Leviathan (WINNER)[2]
  • Brian Boeck - Stalin's Scribe: The Life of Mikhail Sholokhov
  • Kate Brown - Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future               
  • Bathsheba Demuth - Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
  • Owen Matthews - An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent
  • Joan Neuberger - This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia

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

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

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

References
  1. About the prize
  2. 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.
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