# 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.

## Honorees

Pushkin House Russian Book Prize winners and shortlists :
| Year | Author(s) | Title | Publisher | Result |
| 2013 | Douglas Smith | Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy | | Winner |
| 2013 | Anne Applebaum | Iron Curtain | | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Masha Gessen | The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin | | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Thane Gustafson | Wheel of Fortune | | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Donald Raleigh | Soviet Baby Boomers | | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Karl Schlögel | Moscow 1937 | | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Catherine Merridale | Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History | Allen Lane | Winner |
| 2014 | Vladimir Alexandrov | The Black Russian | Head of Zeus | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Sheila Fitzpatrick | A Spy in the Archives: a Memoir of Cold War Russia | I.B. Tauris | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Owen Matthews | Glorious Misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of a Russian America | Bloomsbury | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Anya von Bremzen | Mastering The Art of Soviet Cooking | Transworld | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Stephen Walsh | Mussorgsky and His Circle: a Russian Musical Adventure | Faber and Faber | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Serhii Plokhy | The Last Empire: The final days of the Soviet Union | Oneworld Publications | Winner |
| 2015 | Peter Finn and Petra Couvée | The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the battle over a forbidden book | Harvill Secker/Vintage Books | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Jacek Hugo, trans. by Antonia Lloyd-Jones | Bader- Kolyma Diaries: A Journey into Russia’s haunted hinterland | Portobello Books | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Catriona Kelly | St Petersburg: Shadows of the past | Yale University Press | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Stephen Kotkin | Stalin Volume I: Paradoxes of power,1878-1928 | Penguin Press | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Peter Pomerantsev | Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia | Faber and Faber | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Dominic Lieven | Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia | Penguin Press | Winner |
| 2016 | Gabriel Gorodetsky (ed.) | Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James’s 1932-43 | Yale University Press | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Oleg Khlevniuk, trans. by Nora Seligman Favorov | Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator | Yale University Press | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Bobo Lo | Russia and the New World Disorder | Brookings Institution | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Alfred Rieber | Stalin and the Struggle for Supremacy in Eurasia | Cambridge University Press | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Robert Service | The End of the Cold War: 1985-1991 | Pan Macmillan | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Rosalind Blakesley | The Russian Canvas: Painting in Imperial Russia 1757-1881 | Yale University Press | Winner |
| 2017 | Daniel Beer | The House of the Dead | Allen Lane | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Anne Garrels | Putin Country | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Simon Sebag Montefiore | The Romanovs | Orion | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Simon Morrison | Bolshoi Confidential | Fourth Estate | Shortlist |
| 2017 | 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 | Pushkin Press | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Alexis Peri | The War Within: Diaries From the Siege of Leningrad | Harvard University Press | Winner |
| 2018 | Rodric Braithwaite | Armageddon and Paranoia: The Nuclear Confrontation | Profile Books | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Victoria Lomasko, trans. from Russian by Thomas Campbell | Other Russias | Penguin (first pub. by N+1) | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Olivier Rolin, trans. from French by Ros Schwartz | Stalin’s Meteorologist: One Man’s Untold Story of Love, Life, and Death | Penguin | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Yuri Slezkine | The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution | Princeton University Press | Shortlist |
| 2018 | William Taubman | Gorbachev: His Life and Times | Simon & Schuster | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Serhii Plokhy | Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe | Penguin | Winner |
| 2019 | Taylor Downing | 1983: The World at the Brink | Little, Brown Book Group | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Mark Galeotti | The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia | Yale University Press | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Eleonory Gilburd | To See Paris And Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture | Harvard University Press | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Ben Macintyre | The Spy and the Traitor | Viking | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Katja Petrowskaja | Maybe Esther: A Family Story | 4th Estate | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Sergei Medvedev | The Return of the Russian Leviathan | | Winner |
| 2020 | Brian Boeck | Stalin's Scribe: The Life of Mikhail Sholokhov | | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Kate Brown | Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future | | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Bathsheba Demuth | Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait | | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Owen Matthews | An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent | | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Joan Neuberger | This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia | | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Archie Brown | The Human Factor | | Winner |
| 2021 | Catherine Belton | Putin’s People | | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Evgeny Dobrenko | Late Stalinism | | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Jonathan Schneer | The Lockhart Plot | | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Andrei Zorin | Leo Tolstoy | | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Katherine Zubovich | Moscow Monumental | | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Mary Sarotte | Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate | | Winner |
| 2022 | Frank Billé and Caroline Humphrey | On the Edge: Life along the Russia-China Border | | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Jan Matti Dollbaum | Morvan Lallouet and Ben Noble- Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future? | | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Timothy Frye | Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia | | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Thane Gustafson | Klimat: Russia in the Age of Climate Change | | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Maria Stepanova | In Memory of Memory | | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Deyan Sudjic | Stalin’s Architect: Power and Survival in Moscow | | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Lucy Ward | The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus | | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Elizabeth Wilson | Playing with Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina- Pianist in Stalin’s Russia | | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Vladislav Zubok | Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union | | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Owen Matthews | Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin and Russia’s War Against Ukraine | | Winner |
| 2023 | Ryan Tucker Jones | Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling | | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Jade McGlynn | Russia’s War | | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Olga Petri | Places of Tenderness and Heat: The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siècle St. Petersburg | | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Natasha Lance Rogoff | Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia | | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Tricia Starks | Cigarettes and Soviets: Smoking in the USSR | NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies | Shortlist |
| 2024 | Elena Kostyuchenko | I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country by Elena Kostyuchenko | | Winner |
| 2024 | Julie A. Cassiday | Russian Style: Performing Gender, Power, and Putinism | | Shortlist |
| 2024 | Dan Healey | The Gulag Doctors: Life, Death, and Medicine in Stalin's Labour Camps | | Shortlist |
| 2024 | Tom Parfitt | High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia's Haunted Hinterland | | Shortlist |
| 2024 | Serhii Plokhy | The Russo-Ukrainian War | | Shortlist |
| 2024 | Laur Vallikivi | Words and Silences: Nenets Reindeer Herders and Russian Evangelical Missionaries in the Post-Soviet Arctic | | Shortlist |