Schrad, Mark Lawrence, <br/><br/>
Vodka politics :  alcohol, autocracy, and the secret history of the Russian state / 
Mark Lawrence Schrad. 
 - xvii, 492 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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? 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0199755590 (hardback : alk. paper) 9780199755592 (hardback : alk. paper) 9780190468811 (paperback) 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label> Oxford Univ Pr, 2001 Evans rd, Cary, NC, USA, 27513  SAN 202-5892 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2013028225 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Political aspects--Russia (Federation)<br/>Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Political aspects--History.--Russia<br/>Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Political aspects--History.--Soviet Union<br/>Prohibition--Political aspects--Russia (Federation)<br/>Prohibition--Political aspects--History.--Russia<br/>Prohibition--Political aspects--History.--Soviet Union<br/>Vodka industry--Political aspects--Russia (Federation)<br/>Vodka industry--Political aspects--History.--Russia<br/>Vodka industry--Political aspects--History.--Soviet Union
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV5513  / .S37 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>362.2920947