Vodka politics : alcohol, autocracy, and the secret history of the Russian state /
Mark Lawrence Schrad.
- xvii, 492 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-472) 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 -- 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?
9780199755592 (hardback : acid-free paper)
2013028225
Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Political aspects--History.--Russia Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Political aspects--History.--Soviet Union Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Political aspects--Russia (Federation) Vodka industry--Political aspects--History.--Russia Vodka industry--Political aspects--History.--Soviet Union Vodka industry--Political aspects--Russia (Federation) Prohibition--Political aspects--History.--Russia Prohibition--Political aspects--History.--Soviet Union Prohibition--Political aspects--Russia (Federation) Consumo de bebidas alcohólicas--Aspectos políticos--Historia.--Rusia Consumo de bebidas alcohólicas--Aspectos políticos--Historia.--Unión Soviética Prohibición--Aspectos políticos--Historia.--Rusia 20150500.