Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State

by Mark Lawrence Schrad

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199755590
• ISBN13: 9780199755592
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.6" x 9.5"