Past Winners of the USC Book Prize
2023 - Rory Finnin, Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity (University of Toronto Press).
Honorable Mention: Christina Crawford, Spatial Revolution: Architecture and Planning in the Early Soviet Union (Cornell University Press).
2022 - Yuliya Ilchuk, Nikolai Gogol: Performing Hybrid Identity (University of Toronto Press)
Honorable Mention: Katerina Clark, Eurasia Without Borders: The Dream of a Leftist Literary Commons, 1919-1943 (Belknap Press, Harvard University Press)
2021 - Carol Any, The Soviet Writers’ Union and Its Leaders: Identity and Authority under Stalin (Northwestern University Press).
2020 - Simon Franklin, The Russian Graphosphere, 1450-1850 (Cambridge University Press)
2019 - Maria Taroutina, The Icon and the Square: Russian Modernism and the Russo-Byzantine Revival (Penn State University Press)
Honorable Mention:
Edyta M. Bojanowska, A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate Pallada (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)
2018 - Alexis Peri The War Within: Diaries from the Siege of Leningrad (Harvard University Press)
2017 - Rebecca Gould, Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus (Yale University Press)
Honorable Mention:
Christine Evans, Between Truth and Time: A History of Soviet Central Television (Yale University Press)
2016 - Stephen Lovell, Russia in the Microphone Age: A History of Soviet Radio, 1919-1970 (Oxford University Press)
Honorable Mention:
Alice Lovejoy, Army Film and the Avant-Garde: Cinema and Experiment in the Czechoslovak Military (Indiana University Press)
2015 - Rachel Feldhay Brenner, The Ethics of Witnessing: The Holocaust in Polish Writers' Diaries from Warsaw, 1939-1945 (Northwestern University Press)
Friederike Kind-Kovács, Written Here, Published There: How Underground Literature Crossed the Iron Curtain (Central European University Press)
2014 - Jane T. Costlow, Heart-Pine Russia: Walking and Writing the Nineteenth-Century Forest (Cornell University Press)
2013 - Jan Plamper, The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power (Yale University Press)
2012 - Andreas Schönle, Architecture of Oblivion: Ruins and Historical Consciousness in Modern Russia (Northern Illinois University Press)
2011 - James Loeffler, The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire (Yale University Press)
2010 - Claudia R. Jensen, Musical Cultures in Seventeenth-Century Russia (Indiana University Press)
2009 - Priscilla Meyer, How the Russians Read the French: Lermontov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy (University of Wisconsin Press)