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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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