Revolusi has won one of Germany's finest prizes, the Geschwister Scholl Preis. That prize goes annually to "a recent book that demonstrates intellectual independence and is capable of promoting civil liberty, moral, intellectual and aesthetic courage and providing important impulses for a responsible contemporary consciousness". Previous winners include Jürgen Habermas, Victor Klemperer, Anna Politkovskaya, Ahmet Altan, Glenn Greenwald, Achille Mbembe, Roberto Saviano, Dina Nayeri and Andrei Kurkov.