The alcoholic empire : vodka & politics in late Imperial Russia / Patricia Herlihy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herlihy, Patricia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alcoholism--Russia--History.

Alcoholism.

Temperance--Russia--History.

Temperance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (211 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford University Press 2001

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Alcoholic Empire examines the prevalence of alcohol in Russian social, economic, religious, and political life. Herlihy looks at how the state, the church, the military, doctors, lay societies, and the czar all tried to battle the problem of overconsumption of alcohol in the late imperialperiod. Since vodka produced essential government revenue and was a backbone of the state economy, many who fought for a sober Russia believed that the only way to save the country through Revolutionary change. This book traces temperance activity and politics side by side with the end of thetsarist regime, while showing how the problem of alcohoism continued to pervade Soviet and post-Soviet society. Illustrated by timeless and incisive sayings about the Russian love of vodka and by poster art and paintings, this book will appeal to Russian and European historians and those interestedin temperance history.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

1 Introduction

2 Singing One's Way to Sobriety: The State's Guardianship

3 Drugs Are Our Business: Physicians Stake a Claim on Therapies

4 Battling Booze: Strategies for Sobriety in the Military

5 The Church's New Social Mission

6 Women's Physical and Political Use of Alcohol

7 Tea and Symphony: The Laity Mobilizes against Alcohol

8 The Politics of Alcohol

9 Conclusion

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-028544-3

0-19-518569-2