Vodka politics alcohol, autocracy, and the secret history of the Russian state
"Russia is famous for its vodka, and its culture of extreme intoxication. But just as vodka is central to the lives of many Russians, it also central to understanding Russian history and politics."--Book jacket.
| Main Author: | Schrad, Mark Lawrence (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2014]
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Table of 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?