Year: 2001
Author: Patricia Herlihy
Genre: monograph
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195134311
English language
Format: PDF
Number of Pages: 253

The study "Alcoholic Empire" considers the distribution of alcohol in the Russian social, economic, religious and political life. Herlichi points out how the state, the church, the military, the doctors, and the tsar all tried to deal with the problem of excessive consumption of alcohol at the end of the Russian Empire. Also, the production of vodka is associated with the need for revenues to the state budget, etc.

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