2008 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize
The AAASS Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) 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 English in the United States in the previous calendar year.
The 2008 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize was presented to Adeeb Khalid for Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia published by the University of California Press.
The prize committee also decided to recognize two honorable mentions:
- Chad Bryant received an honorable mention for Prague in Black: Nazi Rule and Czech Nationalism published by Harvard University Press
- John Randolph received an honorable mention for A House in the Garden: The Bakunin Family and the Romance of Russian Idealism, published by Cornell University Press. (A House in the Garden was also the winner of the 2008 W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize.)
(Please click on the name of the winner to see the citation for the award, to connect to the publisher's web page with more information about the book, please click on the title)
A House in the Garden: The Bakunin Family and the Romance of Russian Idealism, by John Randolph
Reconstructing domestic life of a famous noble family, A House in the Garden challenges our understanding of the relations between the private domain, intellectual culture, and state structures in late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russia. With rich example from the lives of the Bakunins, Belinsky, and Stankevich, this subtle and sophisticated book sets new standards for the writing of Russian intellectual history. It would be hard to imagine a finer treatment of such varied sources.
