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001 2013028225
003 DLC
005 20141114082727.0
008 130731s2014 enka b 001 0 eng c
010 $a 2013028225
020 $a9780199755592 (hardback : acid-free paper)
040 $aICU/DLC$beng$cICU$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $ae-ur---$ae-ru---
050 00 $aHV5513$b.S37 2014
082 00 $a362.2920947$223
100 1 $aSchrad, Mark Lawrence,$eauthor.
245 10 $aVodka politics :$balcohol, autocracy, and the secret history of the Russian state /$cMark Lawrence Schrad.
264 1 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c[2014]
300 $axvii, 492 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 393-472) and index.
505 0 $aVodka 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 -- Vodka domination, vodka resistance -- 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?
650 0 $aDrinking of alcoholic beverages$xPolitical aspects$zRussia$xHistory.
650 0 $aDrinking of alcoholic beverages$xPolitical aspects$zSoviet Union$xHistory.
650 0 $aDrinking of alcoholic beverages$xPolitical aspects$zRussia (Federation)
650 0 $aVodka industry$xPolitical aspects$zRussia$xHistory.
650 0 $aVodka industry$xPolitical aspects$zSoviet Union$xHistory.
650 0 $aVodka industry$xPolitical aspects$zRussia (Federation)
650 0 $aProhibition$xPolitical aspects$zRussia$xHistory.
650 0 $aProhibition$xPolitical aspects$zSoviet Union$xHistory.
650 0 $aProhibition$xPolitical aspects$zRussia (Federation)