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.