Vodka politics : alcohol, autocracy, and the secret history of the Russian state /
Schrad, Mark Lawrence,
Vodka politics : alcohol, autocracy, and the secret history of the Russian state / Mark Lawrence Schrad. - xvii, 492 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?
0199755590 (hardback : alk. paper) 9780199755592 (hardback : alk. paper) 9780190468811 (paperback)
Oxford Univ Pr, 2001 Evans rd, Cary, NC, USA, 27513 SAN 202-5892
2013028225
Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Political aspects--Russia (Federation)
Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Political aspects--History.--Russia
Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Political aspects--History.--Soviet Union
Prohibition--Political aspects--Russia (Federation)
Prohibition--Political aspects--History.--Russia
Prohibition--Political aspects--History.--Soviet Union
Vodka industry--Political aspects--Russia (Federation)
Vodka industry--Political aspects--History.--Russia
Vodka industry--Political aspects--History.--Soviet Union
HV5513 / .S37 2013
362.2920947
Vodka politics : alcohol, autocracy, and the secret history of the Russian state / Mark Lawrence Schrad. - xvii, 492 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?
0199755590 (hardback : alk. paper) 9780199755592 (hardback : alk. paper) 9780190468811 (paperback)
Oxford Univ Pr, 2001 Evans rd, Cary, NC, USA, 27513 SAN 202-5892
2013028225
Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Political aspects--Russia (Federation)
Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Political aspects--History.--Russia
Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Political aspects--History.--Soviet Union
Prohibition--Political aspects--Russia (Federation)
Prohibition--Political aspects--History.--Russia
Prohibition--Political aspects--History.--Soviet Union
Vodka industry--Political aspects--Russia (Federation)
Vodka industry--Political aspects--History.--Russia
Vodka industry--Political aspects--History.--Soviet Union
HV5513 / .S37 2013
362.2920947