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 | #840462 in Books |  Schrad Mark Lawrence |  2016-09-01 |  2016-09-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.10 x1.00 x9.20l,.0 | File Name: 0190468815 | 528 pages

 | Vodka Politics Alcohol Autocracy and the Secret History of the Russian State


||19 of 21 people found the following review helpful.| Brilliant, original, riveting!|By Paul Gelman|Sometimes you may have to wait quite a long time in order to read such a masterful book like Professor's Schrad gripping book. It is about the way in which vodka and other spirits have influenced the long, rich and arduous history of Russia.
His main thesis is that since the days of the Vladimir the Great of Kiev, alcohol| |Schrad is an engaging writer. He ranges across Russian history with ease, zeroing in on countless striking anecdotes and developing his story within a competent and well-researched narrative. The author brings to bear vast scholarly literature as well as publ

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 histor...


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