AAASS 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.
2008 AAASS Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize Committee
The winner of the 2008 AAASS Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize will be chosen by the AAASS Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize Committee:
- Bruce Grant, New York U; Committee Chair, 2006-2008; bruce.grant@nyu.edu;
mailing address:
New York University,
Department of Anthropology,
25 Waverly Place,
New York, NY 10012 - Terry Martin, Harvard U; 2007-2009;
mailing address:
29 Oak St.,
Belmont, MA 02478 - Irina Paperno, University of California, Berkeley; 2008-2010;
mailing address:
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Mail Code 2979,
6303 Dwinelle Hall,
University of California, Berkeley,
Berkeley, CA 94720-2979 - Stephen E. Hanson, University of Washington; 2008-2010;
mailing address
Department of Political Science,
University of Washington,
Box 353530,
Seattle, WA 98195-3530
Rules of eligibility
Rules of eligibility for the Vucinich book prize competition are as follows:
- The copyright date inside the book must list 2007 as the date of publication
- The book must be a monograph, preferably by a single author, or by no more than two authors
- Works may deal with any area of Eastern Europe, Russia, or Eurasia
- The competition is open to works of scholarship in any discipline of the social sciences or humanities (including literature, the arts, film, etc.). Policy analyses, however scholarly, cannot be considered
- Textbooks, collections, translations, bibliographies, and reference works are ineligible.
To nominate a publication send one copy of eligible monograph to the AAASS main office (address below in the footnote of the page) AND to each Committee member listed above.
Nominations must be received no later than May 2, 2008.
Submissions should be clearly marked “Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize.” If you would like to receive an acknowledgment that your nomination was received please enclose a letter with an e-mail address with the copy mailed to the AAASS main office.
The Vucinich Book Prize carries a cash award. The 2008 award will be presented in November at the AAASS National Convention in Philadelphia.
2007 Vucinich Book Prize Winner
The 2007 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize was awarded to Alexei Yurchak, for Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation, published by Princeton University Press.
The 2007 Vucinich Book Prize Committe would also like to recognize the five other contenders on its 2007 Vucinich Book Prize short list:
- Robert Crews, For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia (Harvard University Press)
- Jochen Hellbeck, Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary Under Stalin (Harvard University Press)
- Valerie Kivelson, Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and its Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Russia (Cornell University Press)
- Ethan Pollock, Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars (Princeton University Press)
- Marci Shore, Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968 (Yale University Press)
Past winners of the AAASS Vucinich Book Prize
The following scholars received the AAASS Vucinich Book Prize in the past:
(to read the citation for the award, please click on the winner's name; to connect to the publisher's web page with more information about the book, please click on the title)
- 2006 - Francine Hirsch received the award for Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union (Cornell University Press); Christina Kiaer received honorable mention for Imagine No Possessions: The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism (MIT Press)
- 2005 - Yuri Slezkine, The Jewish Century (Princeton University Press)
- 2004 - William Taubman, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (W.W. Norton)
- 2003 - Benjamin Nathans, Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia (University of California Press)
- 2002 - Terry Martin, The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923?1939 (Cornell University Press)
- 2001 - Alaina Lemon, Between Two Fires: Gypsy Performance and Romani Memory from Pushkin to Post-Socialism (Duke University Press)
- 2000 - Peter Gatrell, A Whole Empire Walking: Refugees in Russia during World War I (Indiana University Press)
- 1999 - David D. Laitin, Identity in Formation: The Russian Speaking Populations in the Near Abroad (Cornell University Press)
- 1998 - Stephen E. Hanson , Time and Revolution: Marxism and the Design of Soviet Institutions (University of North Carolina Press)
- 1997 - Tomas Venclova, Aleksander Wat: Life and Art of an Iconoclast (Yale University Press)
- 1996 - Katerina Clark, Petersburg: Crucible of Cultural Revolution (Harvard University Press); Andrzej Walicki, Marxism and the Leap to the Kindgom of Freedom: The Rise and Fall of the Communist Utopia (Stanford University Press)
- 1995 - David Holloway, Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956 (Yale University Press)
- 1994 - Gale Stokes, The Walls Came Tumbling Down: The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe (Oxford University Press)
- 1993 - Laura Engelstein, The Keys to Happiness: Sex and the Search for Modernity in Fin de Si?cle Russia (Cornell University Press)
- 1992 - John P. LeDonne, Absolutism and Ruling Class: The Formation of the Russian Political Order, 1700-1825 (Oxford University Press)
- 1991 - Istvan Deak, Beyond Nationalism: A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps, 1848-1918 (Oxford University Press)
- 1990 - Richard Stites, Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution (Oxford University Press)
- 1989 - Piotr S. Wandycz, The Twilight of French Eastern Alliances 1926-1936: French-Czechoslovak-Polish Relations from Locarno to the Remilitarization of the Rhineland (Princeton University Press)
- 1988 - Allan K. Wildman, The End of the Russian Imperial Army: The Road to Soviet Power and Peace, volume 2 (Princeton University Press)
- 1987 - William Edward Brown, History of Russian Literature of the Romantic Period (Ardis Publishers)
- 1986 - Jeffrey Brooks, When Russia Learned to Read: Literacy and Popular Culture, 1861-1917 (Princeton University Press)
- 1985 - Ivo Banac, The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origins, History, Politics (Cornell University Press)
- 1984 - Terence Emmons, The Formation of Political Parties and the First National Elections in Russia (Harvard University Press)
- 1983 - John R. Lampe and Marvin R. Jackson, Balkan Economic History, 1550?1950: From Imperial Borderlands to Developing Nations Indiana University Press)
