TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schrad,Mark Lawrence
TI  - Vodka politics: alcohol, autocracy, and the secret history of the Russian state 
SN  - 0199755590 (hardback : alk. paper)
AV  - HV5513 .S37 2013
U1  - 362.2920947 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Drinking of alcoholic beverages
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - Russia
KW  - History
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Prohibition
KW  - Vodka industry
N1  - 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?
ER  -