Alcohol-and alcoholism-have long been prominent features in Russian life and culture. But as Mark Schrad vividly shows in Vodka Politics, it has also been central to Russian politics. Not simply a chronicle of drinking in Russia, this book shows how alcohol has been a key shaping force in Russian political history.
Alcohol-and alcoholism-have long been prominent features in Russian life and culture. But as Mark Schrad vividly shows in Vodka Politics, it has also been central to Russian politics. Not simply a chronicle of drinking in Russia, this book shows how alcohol has been a key shaping force in Russian political history.
Mark Schrad is Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois
Inhaltsangabe
* Chapter 1: Introduction * Chapter 2: Vodka Politics * Chapter 3: Cruel Liquor-Ivan the Terrible and Alcohol in the Muscovite Court * Chapter 4: The Weird World of Peter the Great * Chapter 5: Russia's Empresses: Power, Conspiracy, and Vodka * Chapter 6: Murder, Intrigue, and the Mysterious Origins of Vodka * Chapter 7: Why Vodka? Russian Statecraft and the Origins of Addiction * Chapter 8: Vodka and the Origins of Corruption * Chapter 9: Vodka Domination, Vodka Resistance * Chapter 10: The Pen, the Sword, and the Bottle * Chapter 11: Drunk at the Front: Alcohol and the Imperial Russian Army * Chapter 12: Nicholas the Drunk, Nicholas the Sober * Chapter 13: Did Prohibition Cause the Russian Revolution? * Chapter 14: Vodka Commies * Chapter 15: Industrialization, Collectivization, Alcoholization * Chapter 16: Vodka and Dissent in the Soviet Union * Chapter 17: Gorbachev and the (Vodka) Politics of Reform * Chapter 18: How Vodka Politics Killed the USSR, and Why That's Not Funny * Chapter 19: Ladies and Gentlemen: Boris Yeltsin * Chapter 20: Alcohol and the Demodernization of Russia * Chapter 21: The Russian Cross * Chapter 22: The Rise and Fall of Putin's ChampionChapter 23: Medvedev Against History * Chapter 24: An End to Vodka Politics?
* Chapter 1: Introduction * Chapter 2: Vodka Politics * Chapter 3: Cruel Liquor-Ivan the Terrible and Alcohol in the Muscovite Court * Chapter 4: The Weird World of Peter the Great * Chapter 5: Russia's Empresses: Power, Conspiracy, and Vodka * Chapter 6: Murder, Intrigue, and the Mysterious Origins of Vodka * Chapter 7: Why Vodka? Russian Statecraft and the Origins of Addiction * Chapter 8: Vodka and the Origins of Corruption * Chapter 9: Vodka Domination, Vodka Resistance * Chapter 10: The Pen, the Sword, and the Bottle * Chapter 11: Drunk at the Front: Alcohol and the Imperial Russian Army * Chapter 12: Nicholas the Drunk, Nicholas the Sober * Chapter 13: Did Prohibition Cause the Russian Revolution? * Chapter 14: Vodka Commies * Chapter 15: Industrialization, Collectivization, Alcoholization * Chapter 16: Vodka and Dissent in the Soviet Union * Chapter 17: Gorbachev and the (Vodka) Politics of Reform * Chapter 18: How Vodka Politics Killed the USSR, and Why That's Not Funny * Chapter 19: Ladies and Gentlemen: Boris Yeltsin * Chapter 20: Alcohol and the Demodernization of Russia * Chapter 21: The Russian Cross * Chapter 22: The Rise and Fall of Putin's ChampionChapter 23: Medvedev Against History * Chapter 24: An End to Vodka Politics?
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