2016 winner of the Historia Nova prize (Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation/Academic Studies Press)

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Congratulations to the winner of the
2016 Historia Nova Prize for Best Book on Russian Intellectual and Cultural=
 History
(the independent Russian/US award for academic excellence)
~Michael David-Fox~
Crossing Borders: Modernity, Ideology, and Culture in Russia and the Soviet=
 Union.
University of Pittsburgh Russian East European, 2015

Crossing Borders deconstructs contemporary theories of Soviet history from =
the revolution through the Stalin period, and offers new interpretations ba=
sed on a transnational perspective. To Michael David-Fox, Soviet history wa=
s shaped by interactions across its borders. By reexamining conceptions of =
modernity, ideology, and cultural transformation, he challenges the polariz=
ing camps of Soviet exceptionalism and shared modernity and instead strives=
 for a theoretical and empirical middle ground as the basis for a creative =
and richly textured analysis.  Discussions of Soviet modernity have tended =
to see the Soviet state either as an archaic holdover from the Russian past=
, or as merely another form of conventional modernity. David-Fox instead co=
nsiders the Soviet Union in its own light-as a seismic shift from tsarist s=
ociety that attracted influential visitors from the pacifist Left to the fa=
scist Right. By reassembling Russian legacies, as he shows, the Soviet syst=
em evolved into a complex "intelligentsia-statist" form that introduced an =
array of novel agendas and practices, many embodied in the unique structure=
s of the party-state. Crossing Borders demonstrates  the need for a new int=
erpretation of the Russian-Soviet historical trajectory-one that strikes a =
balance between the particular and the universal.

Background.  Established in 2012 by the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation and Ac=
ademic Studies Press, the Historia Nova Prize recognizes the best scholarly=
 volume originally written and published in English within the preceding tw=
o years. Past winners are:

*         2015 Historia Nova: Ekaterina Pravilova, A Public Empire:  Proper=
ty and the Quest for the Common Good in Imperial Russia (Princeton Universi=
ty Press, 2014);

*         2014 Historia Nova: Valerie Kivelson, Desperate Magic: The Moral =
Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia (Cornell University Pre=
ss, 2013);

*         2013 Historia Nova: Serhii Plokhii, The Cossack Myth: History and=
 Nationhood in the Age of Empires (Cambridge University Press, 2012);

*         2012 Historia Nova: Katerina Clark, Moscow the Fourth Rome (Harva=
rd University Press, 2011).



Thanks to the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation for its support and encouragemen=
t.

Prof. N. Condee, Director
Global Studies Center (NRC Title VI)
University Center for International Studies
University of Pittsburgh
4103 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
+1 412-363-7180
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>; www.ucis.pitt.edu/global<http://ww=
w.ucis.pitt.edu/global>
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=3Den&user=3D_klwoloAAAAJ


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tyle=3D"font-size:14.0pt;font-family:&quot;Perpetua&quot;,serif;color:#2F55=
97">Congratulations to the winner of the
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal" align=3D"center" style=3D"text-align:center"><b><spa=
n style=3D"font-size:14.0pt;font-family:&quot;Perpetua&quot;,serif;color:#2=
F5597">2016
<i>Historia Nova</i> Prize for Best Book on Russian Intellectual and Cultur=
al History</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal" align=3D"center" style=3D"text-align:center"><span s=
tyle=3D"font-size:14.0pt;font-family:&quot;Perpetua&quot;,serif;color:#2F55=
97">(the independent Russian/US award for academic excellence)</span><o:p><=
/o:p></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal" align=3D"center" style=3D"text-align:center"><b><spa=
n style=3D"font-size:14.0pt;font-family:&quot;Perpetua&quot;,serif;color:#2=
F5597">~Michael David-Fox~</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal" align=3D"center" style=3D"text-align:center"><b><i><=
span style=3D"font-size:14.0pt;font-family:&quot;Perpetua&quot;,serif;color=
:#2F5597">Crossing Borders: Modernity, Ideology, and Culture in Russia and =
the Soviet Union</span></i></b><b><span style=3D"font-size:14.0pt;font-fami=
ly:&quot;Perpetua&quot;,serif;color:#2F5597">.&nbsp;
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal" align=3D"center" style=3D"text-align:center"><b><spa=
n style=3D"font-size:14.0pt;font-family:&quot;Perpetua&quot;,serif;color:#2=
F5597">University of Pittsburgh Russian East European, 2015</span></b><o:p>=
</o:p></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.4in;ma=
rgin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.4in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<span style=3D"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Perpetua&quot;,serif;colo=
r:#2F5597">&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:.4in;ma=
rgin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.4in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
<i><span style=3D"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Perpetua&quot;,serif;c=
olor:#2F5597">Crossing Borders</span></i><span style=3D"font-size:12.0pt;fo=
nt-family:&quot;Perpetua&quot;,serif;color:#2F5597"> deconstructs contempor=
ary theories of Soviet history from the revolution through
 the Stalin period, and offers new interpretations based on a transnational=
 perspective. To Michael David-Fox, Soviet history was shaped by interactio=
ns across its borders. By reexamining conceptions of modernity, ideology, a=
nd cultural transformation, he challenges
 the polarizing camps of Soviet exceptionalism and shared modernity and ins=
tead strives for a theoretical and empirical middle ground as the basis for=
 a creative and richly textured analysis.&nbsp; Discussions of Soviet moder=
nity have tended to see the Soviet state
 either as an archaic holdover from the Russian past, or as merely another =
form of conventional modernity. David-Fox instead considers the Soviet Unio=
n in its own light&#8212;as a seismic shift from tsarist society that attra=
cted influential visitors from the pacifist
 Left to the fascist Right. By reassembling Russian legacies, as he shows, =
the Soviet system evolved into a complex &#8220;intelligentsia-statist&#822=
1; form that introduced an array of novel agendas and practices, many embod=
ied in the unique structures of the party-state.
<i>Crossing Borders</i> demonstrates &nbsp;the need for a new interpretatio=
n of the Russian-Soviet historical trajectory&#8212;one that strikes a bala=
nce between the particular and the universal.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal"><b><span style=3D"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot=
;Perpetua&quot;,serif;color:#2F5597">&nbsp;</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal"><b><span style=3D"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot=
;Perpetua&quot;,serif;color:#2F5597">Background.</span></b><span style=3D"f=
ont-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Perpetua&quot;,serif;color:#2F5597">&nbsp=
; Established in 2012 by the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation and Academic
 Studies Press, the <i>Historia Nova</i> Prize recognizes the best scholarl=
y volume originally written and published in English within the preceding t=
wo years. Past winners are:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=3D"MsoListParagraph" style=3D"margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in=
;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<![if !supportLists]><span style=3D"font-family:Symbol"><span style=3D"mso-=
list:Ignore">&middot;<span style=3D"font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;"=
>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style=3D"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:=
&quot;Perpetua&quot;,serif;color:#2F5597">2015
<i>Historia Nova</i>: Ekaterina Pravilova, A Public Empire:&nbsp; Property =
and the Quest for the Common Good in Imperial Russia (Princeton University =
Press, 2014);</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=3D"MsoListParagraph" style=3D"margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in=
;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<![if !supportLists]><span style=3D"font-family:Symbol"><span style=3D"mso-=
list:Ignore">&middot;<span style=3D"font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;"=
>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style=3D"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:=
&quot;Perpetua&quot;,serif;color:#2F5597">2014
<i>Historia Nova</i>: Valerie Kivelson, Desperate Magic: The Moral Economy =
of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia (Cornell University Press, 2013=
);</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=3D"MsoListParagraph" style=3D"margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in=
;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<![if !supportLists]><span style=3D"font-family:Symbol"><span style=3D"mso-=
list:Ignore">&middot;<span style=3D"font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;"=
>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style=3D"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:=
&quot;Perpetua&quot;,serif;color:#2F5597">2013
<i>Historia Nova</i>: Serhii Plokhii, The Cossack Myth: History and Nationh=
ood in the Age of Empires (Cambridge University Press, 2012);</span><o:p></=
o:p></p>
<p class=3D"MsoListParagraph" style=3D"margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in=
;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<![if !supportLists]><span style=3D"font-family:Symbol"><span style=3D"mso-=
list:Ignore">&middot;<span style=3D"font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;"=
>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style=3D"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:=
&quot;Perpetua&quot;,serif;color:#2F5597">2012
<i>Historia Nova</i>: Katerina Clark, Moscow the Fourth Rome (Harvard Unive=
rsity Press, 2011).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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=3D"font-family:&quot;Perpetua&quot;,serif;color:#2F5597">&nbsp;</span><o:p=
></o:p></p>
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=3D"font-family:&quot;Perpetua&quot;,serif;color:#2F5597">Thanks to the Mik=
hail Prokhorov Foundation for its support and encouragement.</span><o:p></o=
:p></p>
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rpetua&quot;,serif;color:black">Prof. N. Condee, Director<o:p></o:p></span>=
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