Ekaterina Schulmann
Ekaterina Schulmann is a Russian political scientist and a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Foundation in Berlin. Previously, she was an associate professor at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences. She is the chair of the judging panel for the 2023 Pushkin House Book Prize.
Interviews with Ekaterina Schulmann
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1
Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin and Russia’s War Against Ukraine
by Owen Matthews -
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Russia's War
by Jade McGlynn -
3
Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia
by Natasha Lance Rogoff -
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Places of Tenderness and Heat: The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siècle St. Petersburg
by Olga Petri -
5
Cigarettes and Soviets: Smoking in the USSR
by Tricia Starks -
6
Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling
by Ryan Tucker Jones
The Best Russia Books: The 2023 Pushkin House Prize, recommended by Ekaterina Schulmann
The Best Russia Books: The 2023 Pushkin House Prize, recommended by Ekaterina Schulmann
Since its invasion of Ukraine last year, Russia has been much in the news, with many of us struggling to better understand its politics, history, society and culture. Fortunately, we have the Pushkin House Book Prize, which every year celebrates the best nonfiction written about Russia and available in English. Russian political scientist Ekaterina Schulmann, chair of this year’s judging panel, talks us through the books that made the 2023 shortlist.
