Books by Benjamin Nathans
To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
by Benjamin Nathans
š Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction
To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause by Benjamin Nathans is the story of the Soviet citizens who took on the system from within, using the country's own laws and constitution to fight for a better future, from the 1950s onwards.
Interviews where books by Benjamin Nathans were recommended
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Russia Starts Here: Real Lives in the Ruins of Empire
by Howard Amos -
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The Baton and the Cross: Russia's Church from Pagans to Putin
by Lucy Ash -
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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
by Benjamin Nathans -
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Patriot: A Memoir
by Alexei Navalny, translated by Arch Tait with Stephen Dalziel -
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To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power
by Sergey Radchenko -
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āA Seditious and Sinister Tribeā: The Crimean Tatars and Their Khanate
by Donald Rayfield
The Best Nonfiction Books on Russia: The 2025 Pushkin House Prize, recommended by Gulnaz Sharafutdinova
The Best Nonfiction Books on Russia: The 2025 Pushkin House Prize, recommended by Gulnaz Sharafutdinova
The Pushkin House Book Prize is awarded annually for a nonfiction book that encourages “public understanding and intelligent debate about Russia.” Political scientist Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, chair of this year’s judging panel, talks us through the six fantastic books shortlisted in 2025, illuminating different parts of Russia’s politics and history ā from the memoir of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in prison in 2024, to a history of the Russian Orthodox Church and its role in propping up political regimes from the Middle Ages to the present.
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Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
by Kathleen DuVal -
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Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War
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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
by Jason Roberts -
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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
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Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir
by Tessa Hulls
2025 Pulitzer Prize Nonfiction Book Winners
2025 Pulitzer Prize Nonfiction Book Winners
Earlier this month, the winners of theĀ 2025 Pulitzer Prizes, awarded annually by Columbia University in New York and founded by Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911), were announced. The prizes are awarded for a variety of categories across journalism, but also celebrate outstanding books. Below we’ve listed all the books that won in nonfiction book categories (James by Percival Everett won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction).
