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Pushkin House Book Prize 2022

The 2022 Pushkin House Book Prize went to Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate by M. E. Sarotte. 10 books made the shortlist.

Winner

  1. Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate by M. E. Sarottesource (opens in a new tab)

Shortlist

  1. Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav Zuboksource (opens in a new tab)
  2. In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova, translated by Sasha Dugdalesource (opens in a new tab)
  3. Klimat: Russia in the Age of Climate Change by Thane Gustafsonsource (opens in a new tab)
  4. Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future? by Jan Matti Dollbaum, Morvan Lallouet and Ben Noblesource (opens in a new tab)
  5. On the Edge: Life along the Russia-China Border by Frank Billé and Caroline Humphreysource (opens in a new tab)
  6. Playing with Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina, Pianist in Stalin's Russia by Elizabeth Wilsonsource (opens in a new tab)
  7. Stalin’s Architect: Power and Survival in Moscow by Deyan Sudjicsource (opens in a new tab)
  8. The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus by Lucy Wardsource (opens in a new tab)
  9. Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia by Timothy Fryesource (opens in a new tab)

About the Pushkin House Book Prize

Pushkin House Book Prize (Pushkin House, London) for non-fiction in English about Russia, 2013-2025: winner plus the rest of the shortlist (level Shortlist); six books a year, ten in 2022 (10th anniversary). No longlist is published. Year is the prize year as the body labels it (shortlist in spring, winner in June, books from the prior year). One category, labelled Non-fiction. Winners and the expected counts cite the body's prize page for that year (pushkinhouse.org/projects/book-prize/<id>); those pages render from the site's GraphQL backend, which gives the winner's name and title and the shortlist only as cover images. The cover file names confirm each year's shortlisted titles and count; shortlisted authors and full titles come from Wikipedia's Pushkin House Russian Book Prize table (fallback), which shortlisted rows cite. Translators come from Wikipedia or the body's winner text; a few were added from the published editions (Schlogel, Petrowskaja, Stepanova, Kostyuchenko, Dobrenko) and are unverified against the body. The Maisky Diaries (2016) is credited to its editor Gabriel Gorodetsky, as the prize lists it.

Organization: Pushkin House. Years are award years, which can differ from publication years. Official site (opens in a new tab)

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