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Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State
Mark Lawrence Schrad
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Paperback. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
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 itself-a history that is drenched in ... Read more
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 itself-a history that is drenched in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
737g
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190468811
SKU
V9780190468811
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About Mark Lawrence Schrad
Mark Lawrence Schrad is Assistant Professor of Political Science, Villanova University.
Reviews for Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State
a powerful critique of the effect of the levels of vodka consumption and of government policy ... this book has real value ... [which] principally lies in its laying bare the effects of excessive vodka drinking on the course of development of Russian society and the responsibility of the Russian state in allowing this to develop
Graeme Gill, Australian ... Read more
Graeme Gill, Australian ... Read more