Year |
Author(s) |
Title |
Publisher |
Result |
Ref. |
2013[a] |
Douglas Smith |
Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy |
|
Winner |
[2] |
Anne Applebaum |
Iron Curtain |
|
Shortlist |
[2] |
Masha Gessen |
The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin |
|
Shortlist |
[2] |
Thane Gustafson |
Wheel of Fortune |
|
Shortlist |
[2] |
Donald Raleigh |
Soviet Baby Boomers |
|
Shortlist |
[2] |
Karl Schlögel |
Moscow 1937 |
|
Shortlist |
[2] |
2014[b] |
Catherine Merridale |
Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History |
Allen Lane |
Winner |
[3] |
Vladimir Alexandrov |
The Black Russian |
Head of Zeus |
Shortlist |
[3] |
Sheila Fitzpatrick |
A Spy in the Archives: a Memoir of Cold War Russia |
I.B. Tauris |
Shortlist |
[3] |
Owen Matthews |
Glorious Misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of a Russian America |
Bloomsbury |
Shortlist |
[3] |
Anya von Bremzen |
Mastering The Art of Soviet Cooking |
Transworld |
Shortlist |
[3] |
Stephen Walsh |
Mussorgsky and His Circle: a Russian Musical Adventure |
Faber and Faber |
Shortlist |
[3] |
2015[c] |
Serhii Plokhy |
The Last Empire: The final days of the Soviet Union |
Oneworld Publications |
Winner |
[4] |
Peter Finn and Petra Couvée |
The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the battle over a forbidden book |
Harvill Secker/Vintage Books |
Shortlist |
[4] |
Jacek Hugo, trans. by Antonia Lloyd-Jones |
Bader- Kolyma Diaries: A Journey into Russia’s haunted hinterland |
Portobello Books |
Shortlist |
[4] |
Catriona Kelly |
St Petersburg: Shadows of the past |
Yale University Press |
Shortlist |
[4] |
Stephen Kotkin |
Stalin Volume I: Paradoxes of power,1878-1928 |
Penguin Press |
Shortlist |
[4] |
Peter Pomerantsev |
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia |
Faber and Faber |
Shortlist |
[4] |
2016[d] |
Dominic Lieven |
Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia |
Penguin Press |
Winner |
[5] |
Gabriel Gorodetsky (ed.) |
Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James’s 1932-43 |
Yale University Press |
Shortlist |
[5] |
Oleg Khlevniuk, trans. by Nora Seligman Favorov |
Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator[e] |
Yale University Press |
Shortlist |
[5] |
Bobo Lo |
Russia and the New World Disorder |
Brookings Institution |
Shortlist |
[5] |
Alfred Rieber |
Stalin and the Struggle for Supremacy in Eurasia |
Cambridge University Press |
Shortlist |
[5] |
Robert Service |
The End of the Cold War: 1985-1991 |
Pan Macmillan |
Shortlist |
[5] |
2017[f] |
Rosalind Blakesley |
The Russian Canvas: Painting in Imperial Russia 1757-1881 |
Yale University Press |
Winner |
[6] |
Daniel Beer |
The House of the Dead |
Allen Lane |
Shortlist |
[6] |
Anne Garrels |
Putin Country |
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Shortlist |
[6] |
Simon Sebag Montefiore |
The Romanovs |
Orion |
Shortlist |
[6] |
Simon Morrison |
Bolshoi Confidential |
Fourth Estate |
Shortlist |
[6] |
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[g] |
Pushkin Press |
Shortlist |
[6] |
2018[h] |
Alexis Peri |
The War Within: Diaries From the Siege of Leningrad |
Harvard University Press |
Winner |
[7] |
Rodric Braithwaite |
Armageddon and Paranoia: The Nuclear Confrontation |
Profile Books |
Shortlist |
[7] |
Victoria Lomasko, trans. from Russian by Thomas Campbell |
Other Russias[i] |
Penguin (first pub. by N+1) |
Shortlist |
[7] |
Olivier Rolin, trans. from French by Ros Schwartz |
Stalin’s Meteorologist: One Man’s Untold Story of Love, Life, and Death |
Penguin |
Shortlist |
[7] |
Yuri Slezkine |
The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution |
Princeton University Press |
Shortlist |
[7] |
William Taubman |
Gorbachev: His Life and Times |
Simon & Schuster |
Shortlist |
[7] |
2019[j] |
Serhii Plokhy |
Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe |
Penguin |
Winner |
[8] |
Taylor Downing |
1983: The World at the Brink |
Little, Brown Book Group |
Shortlist |
[8] |
Mark Galeotti |
The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia |
Yale University Press |
Shortlist |
[8] |
Eleonory Gilburd |
To See Paris And Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture |
Harvard University Press |
Shortlist |
[8] |
Ben Macintyre |
The Spy and the Traitor |
Viking |
Shortlist |
[8] |
Katja Petrowskaja |
Maybe Esther: A Family Story |
4th Estate |
Shortlist |
[8] |
2020[k] |
Sergei Medvedev |
The Return of the Russian Leviathan |
|
Winner |
[9][10] |
Brian Boeck |
Stalin's Scribe: The Life of Mikhail Sholokhov |
|
Shortlist |
[9] |
Kate Brown |
Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future |
|
Shortlist |
[9] |
Bathsheba Demuth |
Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait |
|
Shortlist |
[9] |
Owen Matthews |
An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent |
|
Shortlist |
[9] |
Joan Neuberger |
This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia |
|
Shortlist |
[9] |
2021[l] |
Archie Brown |
The Human Factor |
|
Winner |
|
Catherine Belton |
Putin’s People |
|
Shortlist |
|
Evgeny Dobrenko |
Late Stalinism |
|
Shortlist |
|
Jonathan Schneer |
The Lockhart Plot |
|
Shortlist |
|
Andrei Zorin |
Leo Tolstoy |
|
Shortlist |
|
Katherine Zubovich |
Moscow Monumental |
|
Shortlist |
|
2022[m] |
Mary Sarotte |
Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate |
|
Winner |
[12][13] |
Frank Billé and Caroline Humphrey |
On the Edge: Life along the Russia-China Border |
|
Shortlist |
[14] |
Jan Matti Dollbaum |
Morvan Lallouet and Ben Noble- Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future? |
|
Shortlist |
|
Timothy Frye |
Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia |
|
Shortlist |
[15] |
Thane Gustafson |
Klimat: Russia in the Age of Climate Change |
|
Shortlist |
[16] |
Maria Stepanova |
In Memory of Memory |
|
Shortlist |
[17] |
Deyan Sudjic |
Stalin’s Architect: Power and Survival in Moscow |
|
Shortlist |
[18] |
Lucy Ward |
The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus |
|
Shortlist |
[19] |
Elizabeth Wilson |
Playing with Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina- Pianist in Stalin’s Russia |
|
Shortlist |
[20] |
Vladislav Zubok |
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union |
|
Shortlist |
[21] |
2023[n] |
Owen Matthews |
Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin and Russia’s War Against Ukraine |
|
Winner |
[22] |
Ryan Tucker Jones |
Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling |
|
Shortlist |
[23][24] |
Jade McGlynn |
Russia’s War |
|
Shortlist |
[23][24] |
Olga Petri |
Places of Tenderness and Heat: The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siècle St. Petersburg |
|
Shortlist |
[23][24] |
Natasha Lance Rogoff |
Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia |
|
Shortlist |
[23][24] |
Tricia Starks |
Cigarettes and Soviets: Smoking in the USSR |
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies |
Shortlist |
[23][24] |
2024[o] |
Elena Kostyuchenko |
I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country by Elena Kostyuchenko |
Bodley Head |
Winner |
[25][26] |
Julie A. Cassiday |
Russian Style: Performing Gender, Power, and Putinism |
University of Wisconsin Press |
Shortlist |
[26] |
Dan Healey |
The Gulag Doctors: Life, Death, and Medicine in Stalin's Labour Camps |
Yale University Press |
Shortlist |
[26] |
Tom Parfitt |
High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia's Haunted Hinterland |
Headline Book Publishing |
Shortlist |
[26] |
Serhii Plokhy |
The Russo-Ukrainian War |
Allen Lane |
Shortlist |
[26] |
Laur Vallikivi |
Words and Silences: Nenets Reindeer Herders and Russian Evangelical Missionaries in the Post-Soviet Arctic |
Indiana University Press |
Shortlist |
[26] |
2025[p] |
Benjamin Nathans |
To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement |
Princeton University Press |
Winner |
[27] [28] |
Howard Amos |
Russia Starts Here: Real Lives in the Ruins of Empire |
Bloomsbury Continuum |
Shortlist |
[28] |
Lucy Ash |
The Baton and the Cross: Russia's Church from Pagans to Putin |
Icon Books |
Shortlist |
[28] |
Alexei Navalny, translated by Arch Tait & Stephen Dalziel |
Patriot |
Bodley Head |
Shortlist |
[28] |
Sergey Radchenko |
To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power |
Cambridge University Press |
Shortlist |
[28] |
Donald Rayfield |
'A Seditious and Sinister Tribe’ : The Crimean Tatars and Their Khanate |
Reaktion Books |
Shortlist |
[28] |