Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize

Given by Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)

80 Works / 81 Items 5,734 Books 111 Reviews 4.1
Awarded by the Association for  Slavic Studies, East European, and Eurasian StudiesThe ASEEES Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, sponsored by the Association for  Slavic Studies, East European, and show more Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) and the Stanford University Center for Russian and East European Studies, is awarded annually for the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences published in English in the United States in the previous calendar year.

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Stages:
All, Winner (43), Honorable Mention (35), Shortlist (4)
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Years:
All, 2022 (1), 2021 (2), 2020 (2), 2019 (3), 2018 (2), 2017 (1), 2016 (2), 2015 (3), 2014 (3), 2013 (1), 2012 (3), 2011 (5), 2010 (1), 2009 (2), 2008 (3), 2007 (6), 2006 (2), 2005 (2), 2004 (2), 2003 (2), 2002 (2), 2001 (1), 2000 (2), 1999 (1), 1998 (1), 1997 (1), 1996 (2), 1995 (2), 1994 (2), 1993 (2), 1992 (1), 1991 (1), 1990 (1), 1989 (1), 1988 (1), 1987 (1), 1986 (1), 1985 (2), 1984 (4), 1983 (3)

Winner 43

WorkCategoryYear
Utopia's Discontents: Russian Émigrés and the Quest for Freedom, 1830s-1930s by Faith Hillis2022
Psychomotor Aesthetics: Movement and Affect in Modern Literature and Film by Ana Hedberg Olenina2021
Plots against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism by Eliot Borenstein2020
To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture by Eleonory Gilburd2019
Losing Pravda: Ethics and The Press in Post-Truth Russia by Natalia Roudakova2018
How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet by Benjamin Peters2017
"They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide by Ronald Grigor Suny2016
A Public Empire: Property and the Quest for the Common Good in Imperial Russia by Ekaterina Pravilova2015
Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters by Kate Brown2014
First Films of the Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and the Genocide of the Jews, 1938-1946 (Pitt Russian East European) by Jeremy Hicks2013
Portrait of a Russian Province: Economy, Society, and Civilization in Nineteenth-Century Nizhnii Novgorod (Pitt Russian East European) by Catherine Evtuhov2012
The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes by Matthew Jesse Jackson2011
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder2011
Khrushchev's Cold Summer: Gulag Returnees, Crime, and the Fate of Reform After Stalin by Miriam Dobson2010
Holy Fathers, Secular Sons: Clergy, Intelligentsia, and the Modern Self in Revolutionary Russia (Studies of the Harriman Institute) (Studies of the Harriman Institute) by Laurie Manchester2009
Islam After Communism by Adeeb Khalid2008
Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More by Alexei Yurchak2007
Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union by Francine Hirsch2006
The Jewish Century by Yuri Slezkine2005
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman2004
Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia by Benjamin Nathans2003
The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union 1923-1939 by Terry Martin2002
Between Two Fires by Alaina Lemon2001
A Whole Empire Walking: Refugees in Russia during World War I by Peter Gatrell2000
Identity in Formation: The Russian-Speaking Populations in the Near Abroad by David D. Laitin1999
Time and Revolution: Marxism and the Design of Soviet Institutions by Stephen E. Hanson1998
Aleksander Wat: Life and Art of an Iconoclast by Tomas Venclova1997
Petersburg : Crucible of Cultural Revolution by Katerina Clarkco-winner1996
Marxism and the Leap to the Kingdom of Freedom by Andrzej Walickico-winner1996
Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956 by David Holloway1995
The Walls Came Tumbling Down by Gale Stokes1994
The Keys to Happiness by Laura Engelstein1993
Absolutism and Ruling Class by John P. LeDonne1992
Beyond Nationalism by István Deák1991
Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution by Richard Stites1990
The Twilight of the French Eastern Alliances, 1926-1936: French-Czechoslovak-Polish Relations from Locarno to the Remilitarization of the Rhineland by Piotr Stefan Wandycz1989
The End of the Russian Imperial Army by Allan K. Wildman1988
A History of Russian Literature of the Romantic Period by William Edward Brown1987
When Russia Learned to Read: Literacy and Popular Literature, 1861-1917 by Jeffrey Brooks1986
The National Question in Yugoslavia by Ivo Banac1985
The Formation of Political Parties and the First National Elections in Russia by Terence Emmons1984
Balkan Economic History by John R. Lampe1983
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder

Honorable Mention 35

WorkCategoryYear
Stalin: Passage to Revolution by Ronald Grigor Suny2021
This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia by Joan NeubergerHonorable Mention2020
The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan by Sarah CameronHonorable Mention2019
A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism by Victoria SmolkinHonorable Mention2019
Therapeutic Fascism: Experiencing the Violence of the Nazi New Order (Oxford Studies in Modern European History) by Ana AntićHonorable Mention2018
The Depths of Russia: Oil, Power, and Culture after Socialism by Douglas RogersHonorable Mention2016
Gulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta (Yale-Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes) by Alan BarenbergHonorable Mention2015
Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? by Karen DawishaHonorable Mention2015
Desperate Magic: The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia by Valerie KivelsonHonorable Mention2014
Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History by Derek SayerHonorable Mention2014
Moscow, the Fourth Rome: Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Evolution of Soviet Culture, 1931-1941 by Katerina ClarkHonorable Mention2012
Peasants under Siege: The Collectivization of Romanian Agriculture, 1949-1962 by Gail KligmanHonorable Mention2012
Blue Helmets and Black Markets: The Business of Survival in the Siege of Sarajevo by Peter AndreasHonorable Mention2009
Prague in Black: Nazi Rule and Czech Nationalism by Chad Bryanthonorable mention2008
The House in the Garden: The Bakunin Family and the Romance of Russian Idealism by John Randolphhonorable mention2008
For Prophet and Tsar by Robert D. Crewshonorable mention2007
Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary Under Stalin by Jochen Hellbeckhonorable mention2007
Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and Its Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Russia by Valerie Kivelsonhonorable mention2007
Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars by Ethan Pollockhonorable mention2007
Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968 by Marci Shorehonorable mention2007
Imagine No Possessions: The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism by Christina Kiaerhonorable mention2006
A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland by Kate BrownHonorable Mention2005
The Vanishing Hectare: Property and Value in Postsocialist Transylvania (Culture and Society After Socialism) by Katherine VerderyHonorable Mention2004
From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics by Slava GerovitchHonorable Mention2003
Russia's Unfinished Revolution: Political Change from Gorbachev to Putin by Michael McFaulHonorable Mention2002
Mikhail Kuzmin: A Life in Art by John MalmstadHonorable Mention2000
Pushkin and romantic fashion: fragment, elegy, Orient, irony by Monika GreenleafHonorable Mention1995
Tolstoy's art and thought, 1847-1880 by Donna Tussing OrwinHonorable Mention1994
The Revolution of 1905: Authority Restored by Abraham AscherHonorable Mention1993
Empire of knowledge : the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1917-1970) by Alexander VucinichHonorable Mention1985
Roots of Rebellion: Workers' Politics and Organizations in St. Petersburg and Moscow, 1900-1914 by Victoria E. BonnellHonorable Mention1984
Aristocrats and servitors : the boyar elite in Russia, 1613-1689 by Robert O. CrummeyHonorable Mention1984
The Parish Clergy in Nineteenth-Century Russia: Crisis, Reform, Counter-Reform by Gregory L. FreezeHonorable Mention1984
Russian Literature since the Revolution by Edward J. BrownHonorable Mention1983
Slavery in Russia, 1450-1725 by Richard HellieHonorable Mention1983

Shortlist 4

WorkCategoryYear
The Greengrocer and His TV: The Culture of Communism After the 1968 Prague Spring by Paulina BrenShortlist2011
Wandering Soul: The Dybbuk's Creator, S. An-sky by Gabriella SafranShortlist2011
Police Aesthetics: Literature, Film, and the Secret Police in Soviet Times by Cristina VatulescuShortlist2011
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder2011

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