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Vodka politics : alcohol, autocracy, and the secret history of the Russian state / Mark Lawrence Schrad

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Schrad, Mark Lawrence
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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©2014
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1 online resource (514 pages)
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- 2.Vodka Politics -- 3.Cruel Liquor: Ivan the Terrible and Alcohol in the Muscovite Court -- 4.Peter the Great: Modernization and Intoxication -- 5.Russia's Empresses: Power, Conspiracy, and Vodka -- 6.Murder, Intrigue, and the Mysterious Origins of Vodka -- 7.Why Vodka? Russian Statecraft and the Origins of Addiction -- 8.Vodka and the Origins of Corruption in Russia -- 9.Vodka Domination, Vodka Resistance ... Vodka Emancipation? -- 10.The Pen, the Sword, and the Bottle -- 11.Drunk at the Front: Alcohol and the Imperial Russian Army -- 12.Nicholas the Drunk, Nicholas the Sober -- 13.Did Prohibition Cause the Russian Revolution? -- 14.Vodka Communism -- 15.Industrialization, Collectivization, Alcoholization -- 16.Vodka and Dissent in the Soviet Union -- 17.Gorbachev and the (Vodka) Politics of Reform -- 18.Did Alcohol Make the Soviets Collapse? -- 19.The Bottle and Boris Yeltsin -- 20.Alcohol and the Demodernization of Russia -- 21.The Russian Cross -- 22.The Rise and Fall of Putin's Champion -- 23.Medvedev against History -- 24.An End to Vodka Politics?.
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ISBN
9780199755592
9780199389476 (e-book)
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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