Benjamin Nathans, Alan Charles Kors Endowed Term Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, has won the annual Pushkin House Book Prize for To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement.

Read more about the winning book and an interview with Benjamin Nathans here.

The jury also singled out Alexei Navalny’s Patriot, translated by Arch Tait and Stephen Dalziel, for special recognition.

Our Dear Friends in Moscow: The Inside Story of a Broken Generation by Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov

Our Dear Friends in Moscow is a powerful and personal book by two of Russia’s foremost investigative journalists, exploring how the hopes of their generation of optimistic Russians was replaced by autocracy, fear, and betrayal.

Pre-order your copy here, with 10% off until the end of the month.

We look forward to hosting Irina and Andrei at Pushkin House on 2 July, where they will discuss their new book with BBC journalist Grigor Atanesian. Book tickets here.