04069nam 2200673 450 991045344210332120200520144314.00-19-046881-50-19-938947-0(CKB)2550000001180230(EBL)1591070(SSID)ssj0001084838(PQKBManifestationID)12471082(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001084838(PQKBWorkID)11048038(PQKB)10567688(MiAaPQ)EBC1591070(Au-PeEL)EBL1591070(CaPaEBR)ebr10825607(CaONFJC)MIL560344(OCoLC)870919034(EXLCZ)99255000000118023020140115d2014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrVodka politics alcohol, autocracy, and the secret history of the Russian state /Mark Lawrence SchradNew York :Oxford University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (514 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-975559-0 1-306-29093-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; VODKA POLITICS; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; NOTE ON PROPER NAMES; PREFACE; 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 Bottle11. Drunk at the Front: Alcohol and the Imperial Russian Army12. 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?; Notes; IndexRussia is famous for its vodka, and its culture of extreme intoxication. But just as vodka is central to the lives of many Russians, it is also central to understanding Russian history and politics. In Vodka Politics, Mark Lawrence Schrad argues that debilitating societal alcoholism is not hard-wired into Russians' genetic code, but rather their autocratic political system, which has long wielded vodka as a tool of statecraft. Through a series of historical investigations stretching from Ivan the Terrible through Vladimir Putin, Vodka Politics presents the secret history of the Russian state iDrinking of alcoholic beveragesPolitical aspectsRussiaHistoryDrinking of alcoholic beveragesPolitical aspectsSoviet UnionHistoryDrinking of alcoholic beveragesPolitical aspectsRussia (Federation)Vodka industryPolitical aspectsRussiaHistoryVodka industryPolitical aspectsSoviet UnionHistoryElectronic books.Drinking of alcoholic beveragesPolitical aspectsHistory.Drinking of alcoholic beveragesPolitical aspectsHistory.Drinking of alcoholic beveragesPolitical aspectsVodka industryPolitical aspectsHistory.Vodka industryPolitical aspectsHistory.362.2920947Schrad Mark Lawrence929674MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453442103321Vodka politics2264214UNINA