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The Alcoholic Empire: Vodka & Politics in Late Imperial Russia Herlihy, Patricia (Professor of Russian and Soviet History, Professor of Russian and Soviet History, Brown University (Emerita))
The Alcoholic Empire: Vodka & Politics in Late Imperial Russia
Herlihy, Patricia (Professor of Russian and Soviet History, Professor of Russian and Soviet History, Brown University (Emerita))
The author examines the prevalence of alcohol in Russian social, economic, religious and political life, looking at how the state, the church, the military, doctors, lay societies and the Czar all tried to battle the problem of overconsumption of alcohol in the late imperial period.
252 pages, 10pp halftones
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | January 16, 2003 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195160956 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 272 |
| Dimensions | 154 × 228 × 18 mm · 420 g |
| Language | English |