Alexei Yurchak, author of "Bodies of Lenin" (Representations 129, Winter 2015). Here he is receiving Russia's prestigious Prosvetitel Prize, in November 2015, for his Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation («Это было навсегда, пока не кончилось»). The book was first published in 2006 in the United States, where it won the Wayne Vucinic Book Award for best book of the year from the American Society for Eastern European, Eurasian, and Slavic Studies.