2016 WINNER
Dominic Lieven
Towards the Flame
By Dominic Lieven
EXCLUSIVE Interview with dominic lieven here
2016 SECOND PRIZE FOR BEST RUSSIAN BOOK IN TRANSLATION
Exceptionally, in 2016 the judges also awarded a second prize of £2,000, for the best Russian book in translation, to Oleg Khlevniuk from Moscow’s Higher School of Economics, and his translator Nora Favorov, for his work Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator (Yale).
Oleg Khlevniuk, author of Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator (Yale)
Nora Favorov, translator of Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator (Yale)
THE 2016 SHORTLIST
Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James’s 1932-43. Gabriel Gorodetsky, editor (Yale University Press)
Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia. Dominic Lieven (Penguin)
Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator. Oleg Khlevniuk, translated by Nora Seligman Favorov (Yale University Press)
Russia and the New World Disorder. Bobo Lo (Brookings Institution)
Stalin and the Struggle for Supremacy in Eurasia. Alfred Rieber (Cambridge University Press)
The End of the Cold War: 1985-1991. Robert Service (Pan Macmillan)
Click on author names (above) for exclusive Pushkin House interviews with each.
