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1 online resource (xvii, 492 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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? |
| Summary |
"In Vodka Politics, Mark Lawrence Schrad argues that debilitating societal alcoholism is not hard-wired into Russians' genetic code, but rather their autocratic political system, which has long wielded vodka as a tool of statecraft. Through a series of historical investigations stretching from Ivan the Terrible through Vladimir Putin, Vodka Politics presents the secret history of the Russian state itself-a history that is drenched in liquor. Scrutinizing (rather than dismissing) the role of alcohol in Russian politics yields a more nuanced understanding of Russian history itself: from palace intrigues under the tsars to the drunken antics of Soviet and post-Soviet leadership, vodka is there in abundance."--Publisher's website. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Political aspects -- Russia -- History.
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Drinking of alcoholic beverages. |
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Russia. |
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History. |
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Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Political aspects -- Soviet Union -- History.
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Soviet Union. |
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Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Political aspects -- Russia (Federation)
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Russia (Federation) |
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Vodka industry -- Political aspects -- Russia -- History.
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Vodka industry. |
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Vodka industry -- Political aspects -- Soviet Union -- History.
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Vodka industry -- Political aspects -- Russia (Federation)
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Prohibition -- Political aspects -- Russia -- History.
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Prohibition. |
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Prohibition -- Political aspects -- Soviet Union -- History.
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Prohibition -- Political aspects -- Russia (Federation)
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Schrad, Mark Lawrence. Vodka politics. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014] 9780199755592 (DLC) 2013028225 (OCoLC)855263729 |
| ISBN |
0199389470 (electronic book) |
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9780199389476 (electronic book) |
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9780199755592 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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0199755590 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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