Enlightener Prize

Books

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Winners

2023

«What Happened to the Climate»
Ramiz Aliyev (Paulsen)

«The Corporation of Pretenders. Shadow Economy and Corruption in Stalin's USSR»
Oleg Khlevnyuk (New Literary Review)

Short-list

2023

Humanities

«The Chaadayev Affair: Ideology, Rhetoric and State Power in Nicholas Russia»
Mikhail Velizhev (New Literary Review)

«The Birth of the Soviet Woman. Worker, Peasant, Aviatrix, "Former" and Others in Art from 1917 to 1939»
Nadezhda Plungian (Garage Museum of Contemporary Art)

«The Corporation of Pretenders. Shadow Economy and Corruption in Stalin's USSR»
Oleg Khlevnyuk (New Literary Review)

Natural and Exact Sciences

«What Happened to the Climate»
Ramiz Aliyev (Paulsen)

«Wild Bird and Cultural Man. The Common Eider and Homo Sapiens: Fourteen Centuries of Interaction»
Alexandra Goryashko (LD-Print Printing House)

«Dinosaurs of Russia: Past, Present, Future»
Anton Nelikhov (Alpina Non-Fiction)

«Chances and Troubles. Mathematics in Everyday Life»
Sergey Samoylenko (Mann, Ivanov and Ferber)

«Educating Machines: A New History of Intelligence»
Sergei Shumsky (Alpina Non- Fiction)

Long-list

2023

«What Happened to the Climate»
Ramiz Aliyev (Paulsen)

«The Chaadayev Affair: Ideology, Rhetoric and State Power in Nicholas Russia»
Mikhail Velizhev (New Literary Review)

«Visual Glue»
Andrey Gorokhov (Armchair Scientist)

«Wild Bird and Cultural Man. The Common Eider and Homo Sapiens: Fourteen Centuries of Interaction»
Alexandra Goryashko (LD-Print Printing House)

«The Dream Formula: How Social Networks Create Our Dreams»
Ekaterina Kolpinets (Individuum)

«Scouts of the Outer Planets: The Journey of the Pioneers and Voyagers from Earth to Neptune and Beyond»
Igor Lisov (Alpina Non-Fiction)

«350 Years of Modern Fashion, or The Social History of a Common Phenomenon»
Katerina Mikhaleva-Eger (Publishing Solutions)

«The Great Settlement of Moscow. The Authentic History of Kitay-gorod»
Alexander Mozhayev (Bombora)

«Dinosaurs of Russia: Past, Present, Future»
Anton Nelikhov (Alpina Non-Fiction)

«Romanian Myths. From Vircolacs and Pharaohs to Muma Pădurii and Dracula»
Natalia Osoianu (Mann, Ivanov and Ferber)

«Feathered Polygamists: Love, Marriages, Infidelity, and Divorce in the World of Birds»
Vladimir Paevsky (Palmyra)

«Spain from S to N. Dali's Twins, Cervantes' Vobla and Other Stories of a Dedicated Hispanist»
Tatiana Pigaryova (Slovo)

«Chances and Troubles. Mathematics in Everyday Life»
Sergey Samoylenko (Mann, Ivanov and Ferber)

«The Birth of the Soviet Woman. Worker, Peasant, Aviatrix, "Former" and Others in Art from 1917 to 1939»
Nadezhda Plungian (Garage Museum of Contemporary Art)

«The Corporation of Pretenders. Shadow Economy and Corruption in Stalin's USSR»
Oleg Khlevnyuk (New Literary Review)

«The Essence of Korean Art History: Key Works, Themes, Names, Techniques»
Elena Khokhlova (Mann, Ivanov and Ferber)

«The Kingdom of Cambodia. The Zoologist's Extended Journey»
Oleg Shumakov (Phyton XXI)

«Educating Machines: A New History of Intelligence»
Sergei Shumsky (Alpina Non- Fiction)

«The Right to Life. A History of Capital Punishment»
Tamara Eidelman (Alpina Non- Fiction)

«I Сan't Stand. Adaptation to Stress, or How to Stay Healthy in an Unhealthy World»
Leonid Chutko (Portal)