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.[1]
| 2013 | Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy | Winner | [2] | ||
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| Iron Curtain | Shortlist | ||||
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| Wheel of Fortune | Shortlist | ||||
| Soviet Baby Boomers | Shortlist | ||||
| Moscow 1937 | Shortlist | ||||
| 2014 | Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History | Allen Lane | Winner | [3] | |
| Head of Zeus | Shortlist | ||||
| IB Taurus | Shortlist | ||||
| Glorious Misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of a Russian America | Bloomsbury | Shortlist | |||
| Anya von Bremzen | Mastering The Art of Soviet Cooking | Transworld | Shortlist | ||
| Mussorgsky and His Circle: a Russian Musical Adventure | Faber and Faber | Shortlist | |||
| 2015 | Oneworld Publications | Winner | [4] | ||
| and Petra Couvée | Harvill Secker/Vintage Books | Shortlist | |||
| , trans. by Antonia Lloyd-Jones | Bader- Kolyma Diaries: A Journey into Russia’s haunted hinterland | Portobello Books | Shortlist | ||
| St Petersburg: Shadows of the past | Yale University Press | Shortlist | |||
| Stalin Volume I: Paradoxes of power,1878-1928 | Penguin Press | Shortlist | |||
| Faber and Faber | Shortlist | ||||
| 2016 | Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia | Penguin Press | Winner | [5] | |
| (ed.) | Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James’s 1932-43 | Yale University Press | Shortlist | ||
| , trans. by Nora Seligman Favorov | Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator | Yale University Press | Shortlist | ||
| Russia and the New World Disorder | Brookings Institution | Shortlist | |||
| Stalin and the Struggle for Supremacy in Eurasia | Cambridge University Press | Shortlist | |||
| Pan Macmillan | Shortlist | ||||
| 2017 | Yale University Press | Winner | [6] | ||
| Allen Lane | Shortlist | ||||
| Putin Country | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Shortlist | |||
| Orion | Shortlist | ||||
| Bolshoi Confidential | Fourth Estate | Shortlist | |||
| 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 | Harvard University Press | Winner | [7] | ||
| Armageddon and Paranoia: The Nuclear Confrontation | Profile Books | Shortlist | |||
| , trans. from Russian by Thomas Campbell | Other Russias | Penguin (first pub. by N+1) | Shortlist | ||
| , trans. from French by Ros Schwartz | Stalin’s Meteorologist: One Man’s Untold Story of Love, Life, and Death | Penguin | Shortlist | ||
| Princeton University Press | Shortlist | ||||
| Gorbachev: His Life and Times | Simon & Schuster | Shortlist | |||
| 2019 | Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe | Penguin | Winner | [8] | |
| 1983: The World at the Brink | Little, Brown Book Group | Shortlist | |||
| Yale University Press | Shortlist | ||||
| To See Paris And Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture | Harvard University Press | Shortlist | |||
| Viking | Shortlist | ||||
| Maybe Esther: A Family Story | 4th Estate | Shortlist | |||
| 2020 | Winner | [9] [10] | |||
| Stalin's Scribe: The Life of Mikhail Sholokhov | Shortlist | ||||
| Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future | Shortlist | ||||
| Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait | Shortlist | ||||
| An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent | Shortlist | ||||
| This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia | Shortlist | ||||
| 2021 | Winner | ||||
| Putin’s People | Shortlist | ||||
| Late Stalinism | Shortlist | ||||
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| Leo Tolstoy | Shortlist | ||||
| Moscow Monumental | Shortlist | ||||
| 2022 | Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate | Winner | [11] [12] | ||
| and Caroline Humphrey | On the Edge: Life along the Russia-China Border | Shortlist | [13] | ||
| Morvan Lallouet and Ben Noble- Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future? | Shortlist | ||||
| Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia | Shortlist | [14] | |||
| Klimat: Russia in the Age of Climate Change | Shortlist | [15] | |||
| In Memory of Memory | Shortlist | [16] | |||
| Stalin’s Architect: Power and Survival in Moscow | Shortlist | [17] | |||
| Shortlist | [18] | ||||
| Playing with Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina- Pianist in Stalin’s Russia | Shortlist | [19] | |||
| Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union | Shortlist | [20] | |||
| 2023 | Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin and Russia’s War Against Ukraine | Winner | [21] | ||
| Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling | Shortlist | [22] [23] | |||
| Russia’s War | Shortlist | ||||
| Places of Tenderness and Heat: The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siècle St. Petersburg | Shortlist | ||||
| Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia | Shortlist | ||||
| 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 | [24] | |
| Julie A. Cassiday | Russian Style: Performing Gender, Power, and Putinism | Shortlist | [25] | ||
| Dan Healey | The Gulag Doctors: Life, Death, and Medicine in Stalin's Labour Camps | Shortlist | |||
| Tom Parfitt | High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia's Haunted Hinterland | Shortlist | |||
| Serhii Plokhy | The Russo-Ukrainian War | Shortlist | |||
| Laur Vallikivi | Words and Silences: Nenets Reindeer Herders and Russian Evangelical Missionaries in the Post-Soviet Arctic | Shortlist |