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

• Autore: Schrad Mark Lawrence
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (514 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.2920947
• Soggetto topico: Drinking of alcoholic beverages - Political aspects - Russia - History; Drinking of alcoholic beverages - Political aspects - Soviet Union - History; Drinking of alcoholic beverages - Political aspects - Russia (Federation); Vodka industry - Political aspects - Russia - History; Vodka industry - Political aspects - Soviet Union - History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Bottle ; 11. 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 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 i
• Titolo autorizzato: Vodka politics
• ISBN: 0-19-046881-5; 0-19-938947-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910453442103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II