Pushkin House Announces Short List for 2021 Book Prize

The prize not only celebrates the most effective blogging about Russian history, national politics, culture and arts, but additionally looks for to promote a richer as well as a lot more nuanced understanding of the Russian globe.

The Pushkin House in London has actually just announced their shortlist for the 2021 Pushkin House Book Prize.

Annually a panel of courts select the most effective non-fiction regarding or from the Russian-speaking globe published in English. Established in 2013, the yearly reward brings a monetary award of ₤ 10,000 and also is implemented by contributions from Douglas Smith and Stephanie Ellis-Smith, as well as The Polonsky Foundation.

This year, as in previous years, the procedure of winnowing down loads of books to a short list was painstaking as well as strenuous. The six books in competitors for the prize stand for a wide variety of genres and topics. Douglas Smith, champion of the very first Pushkin House Book Prize and also a funder of the reward with his other half Stephanie Ellis-Smith, stated: “From cutting edge espionage to modern kleptocracy, from the literary standards to the death of the chilly war and also from city preparation to the last gasps of Stalinist tyranny, this year’s shortlist for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize has something for everyone and talks to the interesting breadth of today’s best creating on Russia.”

The 2021 shortlisted titles are:

” Putin’s People” by Catherine Belton, the tale of exactly how Putin and also his entourage of KGB males took power in Russia and also developed a new organization of oligarchs;

” The Human Factor” by Archie Brown, an evaluation of exactly how the personalities and individual relationships of Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan played a crucial function in ending the Cold War;

” Late Stalinism” by Evgeny Dobrenko, translated by Jesse M. Savage, a consider the last eight years of Stalin’s life and how it formed the imperial consciousness that is still an underpinning of Russian policies today;

” The Lockhart Plot” by Jonathan Schneer, a strategy concocted by British, French and American agents to ruin Lenin’s government from the within in 1918 that stopped working disastrously;

” Leo Tolstoy” by Andrei Zorin, a significant brand-new bio of the author and research study of his jobs;

” Moscow Monumental” by Katherine Zubovich, the fascinating story of the high-rise buildings constructed under Stalin and also exactly how they transformed Moscow life.

This year the panel of courts is chaired by Fiona Hill, senior other in the Center on the United States as well as Europe in the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, replacement assistant to the head of state and senior supervisor for Russian and also european affairs on the National Security Council. The other participants of the panel are Declan Donnellan, joint creator and also creative supervisor of the theater company Cheek by Jowl, which developed a firm of Russian actors in 1999; Sergei Medvedev, writer, reporter and professor at Moscow Free University and also writer of The Return of the Russian Leviathan, victor of the 2020 Pushkin House Russian Book Prize; George Robertson, Labor life peer, advisor to BP as well as previous Secretary General of NATO and also UK Defense Secretary; and Maria Stepanova, poet, essayist, journalist and also writer of In Memory of Memory, shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize.

The reward will certainly be introduced at a special event in October.

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