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Vodka politics : alcohol, autocracy, and the secret history of the Russian state / Mark Lawrence Schrad.

LIBRA HV5513 .S37 2013
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Schrad, Mark Lawrence, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Political aspects--Russia--History.
Drinking of alcoholic beverages.
Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Political aspects--Soviet Union--History.
Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Political aspects--Russia (Federation).
Vodka industry--Political aspects--Russia--History.
Vodka industry.
Vodka industry--Political aspects--Soviet Union--History.
Vodka industry--Political aspects--Russia (Federation).
Prohibition--Political aspects--Russia--History.
Prohibition.
Prohibition--Political aspects--Soviet Union--History.
Prohibition--Political aspects--Russia (Federation).
History.
Russia (Federation).
Soviet Union.
Russia.
Physical Description:
xvii, 492 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Contents:
Vodka politics
Cruel liquor: Ivan the Terrible and alcohol in the Muscovite court
Peter the Great: modernization and intoxication
Russia's empresses: power, conspiracy, and vodka
Murder, intrigue, and the mysterious origins of vodka
Why vodka? Russian statecraft and the origins of addiction
Vodka and the origins of corruption in Russia
Vodka domination, vodka resistance...vodka emancipation?
The pen, the sword, and the bottle
Drunk at the front: alcohol and the imperial Russian army
Nicholas the Drunk, Nicholas the Sober
Did prohibition cause the Russian revolution?
Vodka communism
Industrialization, collectivization, alcoholization
Vodka and dissent in the Soviet Union
Gorbachev and the (vodka) politics of reform
Did alcohol make the Soviets collapse?
The bottle and Boris Yeltsin
Alcohol and the demodernization of Russia
The Russian cross
The rise and fall of Putin's champion
Medvedev against history
An end to vodka politics?
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780199755592
0199755590
OCLC:
855263729

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