2022
Honorable Mention
Making Ukrainian Soviet: Literature and Cultural Politics under Lenin and Stalin
Honorable Mention: Olena Palko
Title: Making Ukrainian Soviet: Literature and Cultural Politics under Lenin and Stalin (Bloomsbury Publishers)
InĀ Making Ukraine Soviet: Literature and Cultural Politics under Lenin and Stalin, Olena Palko skillfully challenges center-periphery assumptions about institutional centers of gravity for framings of Ukrainian and early Soviet literary production, by her transnational coverage of Ukraine and its fascinating debates over cultural politics.
Winner: Yuliya Ilchuk