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Vodka politics : alcohol, autocracy, and the secret history of the Russian state / Mark Lawrence Schrad.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schrad, Mark Lawrence.
- 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.
- History.
- Soviet Union.
- Russia.
- Russia (Federation).
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (514 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction 1
- 2 Vodka Politics 13
- 3 Cruel Liquor: Ivan the Terrible and Alcohol in the Muscovite Court 26
- 4 Peter the Great: Modernization and Intoxication 36
- 5 Russia's Empresses: Power, Conspiracy, and Vodka 49
- 6 Murder, Intrigue, and the Mysterious Origins of Vodka 60
- 7 Why Vodka? Russian Statecraft and the Origins of Addiction 75
- 8 Vodka and the Origins of Corruption in Russia 92
- 9 Vodka Domination, Vodka Resistance ... Vodka Emancipation? 111
- 10 The Pen, the Sword, and the Bottle 127
- 11 Drunk at the Front: Alcohol and the Imperial Russian Army 149
- 12 Nicholas the Drunk, Nicholas the Sober 169
- 13 Did Prohibition Cause the Russian Revolution? 185
- 14 Vodka Communism 198
- 15 Industrialization, Collectivization, Alcoholization 216
- 16 Vodka and Dissent in the Soviet Union 236
- 17 Gorbachev and the (Vodka) Politics of Reform 256
- 18 Did Alcohol Make the Soviets Collapse? 274
- 19 The Bottle and Boris Yeltsin 287
- 20 Alcohol and the Demodernization of Russia 308
- 21 The Russian Cross 326
- 22 The Rise and Fall of Putin's Champion 338
- 23 Medvedev against History 360
- 24 An End to Vodka Politics? 378.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Schrad, Mark Lawrence. Vodka politics : alcohol, autocracy, and the secret history of the Russian state.
- ISBN:
- 9780199389476
- OCLC:
- 867929597
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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