Enlightener Prize

Prize 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)

2022

«Cloudy with a Chance of Killer Whales»
Olga Filatova (ANF)

«The Imaginary Enemy: Non-Christians in Medieval Iconography»
Mikhail Maisuls (ANF)

2021

«The Gospel According to LUCA. In Search After a Family Tree of the Animal Kingdoml»
Maxim Vinarsky

2020

«The Clap of One Hand. How Inanimate Nature Gave Birth to the Human Mind»
Nikolai Kukushkin

«The Thaw: Events. March 1953 - August 1968»
Sergey Chuprinin

«TEEN TALK SPECIAL NOMINATION: How to Listen to Music»
Lyalya Kandaurova

«TEEN TALK SPECIAL NOMINATION: Short Novels about Russia 1861-1922: A Reading Book »
Marietta Chudakova

2019

«Alchemy of Soviet industrialization. The Torgsin Time»
Elena Osokina

«0.05. Evidence Based Medicine. From the magic to the search of immortality»
Peter Talantov

2018

«Suffering in the Middle Ages»
Sergei Zotov, Mikhail Maizuls, Dilshat Kharman

«From Atoms to a Tree. Introduction to the Modern Life Science»
Sergey Yastrebov

2017

«To Go Crazy. Guide to Mental Disorders for a Big City Dweller »
Daria Varlamova, Anton Zainiev

«The Sign Cannot Be Erased. Fates of the Ostarbeiters in Letters, Memoirs and Oral »
Alena Kozlova, Nikolai Mikhailov, Irina Ostrvskia, Irina Scherbakova

«Creating Languages. From Esperanto to Dothraki »
Alexander Piperski

2016

«Anatomy of Architecture. Seven Books on Logic, Form and Meaning»
Sergei Kavtaradze

«The Sum of Biotechnology »
Alexander Panchin

2015

«Mathematical Component »
Nikolai Andreev, Sergey Konovalov, Nikita Panyunin

«Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No more: The Last Soviet Generation »
Alexei Yurchak

2014

«Who Would Have Thought So! How the Brain Makes us Do Stupid Things »
Asya Kazantseva

«Everyday Life in the Beseiged Leningrad »
Sergey Yarov

2013

«Wait, Who Is In Charge? The Biology behind Behaviour of Humans and Other Animals »
Dmitry Zhukov

«Here Was Rome »
Victor Sonkin

2012

«Emperor Meiji and His Japan »
Alexander Meshcheryakov

«Exploration of Distant Planets »
Vladimir Surdin

2011

«Why Languages Are So Different »
Vladimir Plungyan

«The Evolution of Man (in two volumes) »
Alexander Markov

2010

«1000 Years of Inspiration. Amazing Stories of Simple Things »
Sergei Ivanov

«The Apology of Mathematics »
Vladimir Uspensky

2009

«An Attempt at Art »
Grigory Kozlov

«The Quantum Dice »
Leonid Ponomarev

2008

«Historical Chronicles with Nikolai Svanidze »
Marina Svanidze

«SPECIAL PRIZE: Capitoline Wolf: Rome before Caesars »
Mikhail Gasparov

«SPECIAL PRIZE: Seeking the Truth »
Arkady Migdal