Tobacco in Russian History and Culture (eBook, ePUB)

The Seventeenth Century to the Present
Redaktion: Romaniello, Matthew; Starks, Tricia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Tobacco in Russian History and Culture: The Seventeenth Century to the Present explores tobacco's role in Russian culture through a multidisciplinary approach starting with the growth of tobacco consumption from its first introduction in the seventeenth century until its pandemic status in the current post-Soviet health crisis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135842888
• Artikelnr.: 38246053

Autorenporträt

Matthew P. Romaniello is Assistant Professor of History at University of Hawai'i at Manoa. He has published several articles on the history of the Russian Empire, and is currently completing a monograph on Khanate of Kazan' after the Muscovite conquest. Tricia Starks is Associate Professor of History at University of Arkansas. She is the author of The Body Soviet: Propaganda, Hygiene, and the Revolutionary State, (2008). She is currently completing a monograph on the cultural history of cigarettes in the Soviet Union.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. List of Figures. 1. Tabak: An Introduction. Matthew P.
Romaniello and Tricia Starks. 2. Muscovy's Extraordinary Ban on Tobacco.
Matthew P. Romaniello. 3. Sex, Drink, and Drugs: Tobacco in
Seventeenth-Century Russia. Nikolaos Chrissidis. 4. Tobacco and Health in
Early Modern Russia. Eve Levin. 5. Regulating Virtue and Vice in Siberia.
Erika Monahan. 6. "I Think, Therefore I Smoke": Tobacco as Liberation in
Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature and Culture. Konstantine
Klioutchkine. 7. Smokescreens: Tobacco Manufacturers' Projections of Class
and Gender in Late Imperial Advertising. Sally West. 8. Tobacco
Prohibitions as Ritual Language. Roy R. Robson. 9. Papirosy, Smoking, and
the Anti-Cigarette Movement. Tricia Starks. 10. Tobacco Production in
Russia: The Transition to Communism. Iu. P. Bokarev. 11. "The lads indulged
themselves, they used to smoke...": Tobacco and Children's Culture in
Twentieth-Century Russia. Catriona Kelly. 12. "Tobacco Is Poison!"
Soviet-Era Anti-Smoking Posters. Karen F. A. Fox. 13. The Iava Tobacco
Factory from the 1960s to the early 1990s: An Interview with The Former
Director, Leonid Iakovlevich Sinel'nikov. Elizaveta Gorchakova. 14. Smokes
for Big Brother: Bulgaria, the USSR, and the Politics of Tobacco in the
Cold War. Mary Neuberger. 15. Tobacco and Transition: The Advent of
Transnational Tobacco Companies. Anna Gilmore. 16. Up in Smoke? The
Politics and Health Impact of Tobacco in Today's Russia. Judy Twigg. List
of Contributors. Index.