Living water vodka and Russian society on the eve of emancipation

This title provides a study of the social, economic and political role of vodka in 19th century Russia. It focuses on the 'Great Reforms' of the 1860s, in some ways a parallel period to the glasnost of the 1980s, when vodka went through a transitional period, with the abolition of vodka ta...

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Main Author: Christian, David
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Clarendon 1990, 1990
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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