2024:

• Undergraduate Essay: Jackson Pinkowski (McGill University), “Woman, What Have I to Do with Thee?”: Effacing the Feminine in Dostoevsky”
• Graduate Essay: Kevin Milne (University of Toronto), “Bounty and Decline in the Poetic Landscape of Leonid Aronzon”

2023:

• Undergraduate Essay: Connor Haines (University of Ottawa), “From Tricksters to Devils: Factors Influencing Tsar Alexey’s Edicts against the Minstrels in 1648”
• Graduate Essay: Michael Czyż (McGill University), “Far From a Capital ‘Worthy of a Nation among Nations’: Critical Perspectives on Warsaw in Polish Architectural and Urban Discourse in the Interwar Period” 

2022:

• Undergraduate Essay: Sydney Shiller (McGill University), “The Crucified Land: Accusations of Ukrainian Antisemitism in Putin’s Russia, 2014-2022”
• Graduate Essay: Filipp Lekmanov (University of Toronto), “‘Not fashionable but just how I need it: rather tasteless’: Nikolai Chernyshevsky’s Philosophy of Dress”

2020:

• Undergraduate Essay: Sarah Sturken (McGill University), “Honour and Glory to the Heroes: Cultural Memory, Politics, and the Controversial Legacy of Poland’s ‘Cursed Soldiers'”
• Graduate Essay: Benyamin Villani (McGill University), “The Refugees’ Revolution: Displaced Persons, the Eastern Bloc, and the United Nations”

2019:

• Undergraduate Essay: Yaroslav Gouzenko (McGill University), “Shaimiev and the Tatarstan Model: A Successful Highjack”

2018:

• Undergraduate Essay: Flora Deverell (McGill University), “Rushing the Maidan: Understanding the Relationship between the 2004 Orange Revolution and the 2013-14 Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine”; and Hannah Rudderham (University of Alberta), “Who Wore the Uniform? The Question of Soldier Identity in Revolutionary Russia, February-October 1917”
• Graduate Essay: Sean Patterson (University of Alberta), “Prefiguring Privilege: Mennonite Self-Defence as a Symptom of Imperial Decolonization”

2017:

• Undergraduate Essay: Samuel Hull (McGill University), “Violence and Power: The Expulsion of the Sudeten Germans and the Fall of the Beneš Regime”
• Graduate Essay: Rachel Van Fraassen (McMaster University), “Black Ikons: Experiencing Racial Categorization in the Interwar Soviet Union”

2016:

• Undergraduate Essay: Christopher Martin (McGill University), “Community and the Sacred: A Durkheimian Approach to Polish Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Russian Poland”
• Graduate Essay: Violène Dauvois, (University of Ottawa), “Aqua vitae, aqua mortis: Le système atemporel de l’eau dans l’œuvre Watermark de Joseph Brodsky”

2015:

• Graduate Essay: Stephanie Dreier (University of British Columbia), “The Problem of Literary History”

2014:

• Undergraduate Essay: Nicolas Tetreault (McGill University), “Foreign Tourism’s Under-Assessed Challenge to the Polish United Workers’ Party, c. 1970-1980”
• Graduate Essay: Meagan Fairholm (University of Alberta), “Motherly Compassion and Matriarchy”

2013:

• Undergraduate Essay: Antony Kalashnikov (University of Alberta), “Party Ideology in the Late Soviet Period: An Althusserian Analysis”
• Graduate Essay: Zsofia Surjan, (University of Victoria), “Fertility Treatment in Sixteenth-Century Hungary: The Correspondence of a Count, His Wife and a Physician”

2012:

• Undergraduate Essay: Dennis Khaiter (University of Toronto), “Reflecting the Problems from One Epoch to Another: A Contrast of Pushkin and Tchaikovsky’s Versions of Yevgeni Onegin“
• Graduate Essay: Francesca Silano (University of Toronto), “‘A Link in the Chain of Art’: The Life of Maria Yudina”

2011:

• Undergraduate Essay: Sara Miller (University of Ottawa), “From the Politics of Amnesia to the Politics of Remembrance: An Analysis of the Katyń Massacre’s Historical Narrative”
• Graduate Essay: Will McFadden (University of Toronto), “The Power and the Paradox: The Early Lives and Writing of John Dos Passos, John Scott, and Vasily Grossman”; and Ian Garner (University of Toronto), “Why the USSR Sent Troops into Kabul in December 1979”

2010:

• Undergraduate Essay: Stephen Ejack (University of Alberta), “A Brief Critical Analysis of the War Industries Committees’ Political Activities: May–September 1915”; and Terrance David Reid (University of Waterloo), “Laying the Theoretical Groundwork of Biomechanical Technique: Understanding the Origins and Theories of ‘Biomechanics'”

2009:

• Graduate Essay: Ben McVicker (University of Toronto), “The Creation and Transformation of a Cultural Icon: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in Post-Soviet Russia, 1994-2008”

2008:

• Undergraduate Essay: Megan Butler (University of Lethbridge), “The Prayers of the Soviets”
• Graduate Essay: Timothy Sayle (University of Toronto), “Andropov and the Hungarian Complex”

2007:

• Undergraduate Essay: Alex Souchen (University of Ottawa), “The Czechoslovak Legion in Russia”

2006:

• Undergraduate Essay: Talia Zajac (University of Toronto), “Silk and Crosses: Contextualizing the Rus’ Conversion of 988 in Byzantine and Rus’ Sources”
• Graduate Essay: Auri Berg (University of Toronto), “From Town to City: Urbanization and Social Integration in Late 19th-Century Nizhnii Novgorod”

2005:

• Undergraduate Essay: Paul Ferguson (Carleton University), “The Failed Middle Path: Russian Liberalism, 1900-1914”
• Graduate Essay: Olga Kesarchuk (University of Toronto), “Loving Investment, Hating Investors? The Case of Ukraine”

2003:

• Undergraduate Essay: Emily Anglin (University of Waterloo), “‘A Disastrous and Dangerous Illness’: Division and Danger in A Double Life“
• Graduate Essay: Max Bergholz  (University of Toronto), “Who was the Soviet Professional?”

2000:

• Graduate Essay: Denis Kozlov (University of Toronto), “The Leningrad Martyrology: A Note on the Statistics of 1937 Executions in Leningrad City and Region”

1999:

• Graduate Essay: Peter Waisberg (Carleton University), “A Citizenship Law for Tatarstan”

1998:

• Graduate Essay: Heather DeHaan (University of Toronto), “Russia’s rebirth: The Spiritual Aspect of Enlightenment”; and Tawnia Sanford (Carleton University), “The Creation of Criminal Russia.” Articles based on both of these submissions were published in CSP, vol. 43, nos. 3-4 (Sept.-Dec. 1999).