Council of People’s Commissars (Sovnarkom), 204
counterrevolution, 201, 214, 218, 223, 237
and alcohol, 202–204, 210, 227–228
coup d’état. See revolution
Courland. See Latvia
Coxe, William, 114
Coyet, Balthazar, 86
crime, 245, 265, 372
and alcohol, 88, 100, 131, 137–138, 153, 186, 199, 231, 234, 241–242, 276, 282, 331–332, 386
Crime and Punishment, 129, 136–137
Crimea, 3, 49, 72, 111, 155–160, 171, 173, 284, 288
Crimean War, 108, 111, 121, 154–163
Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism, 285
C-Span, 251, 253
Cuba, 239, 281
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1, 239
cult of military sobriety, 168, 175–176, 186
cultures of drinking. See drinking cultures
Custer, George Armstrong, 173
Custine, Marquis de, 116
customs duties, 95, 314–316, 403n40
Cyprus, 341
Czech Republic, 151, 205, 257, 321–322, 327–330, 381
Dagestan, 321, 344
Dante, 327, 337, 380
Danube River, 195
Danzas (governor), 120
Dashkova, Ekaterina, Princess, 55–57
Davis, Christopher, 251–252, 265
DeBeers, 257
Decembrists, 58–59, 155
de Gaulle, Charles, 5–6, 28, 300, 339
dekulakization, 225–230, 234, 439n37
See also kulak
delirium tremens, 369
Dembo, L. I., 124
Demin, Andrei, 390
democracy, 14, 17, 129, 209, 241, 262, 274, 287, 289, 292, 299, 304, 310–312, 324–326, 328, 350, 351, 360, 386, 390
demodernization, xii, 13, 18, 275, 287, 304, 309–328, 332, 336, 347, 381–383, 453n10
definition of, 310, 453n10
demographics, xii, 14, 18, 230, 236, 275, 282, 285–287, 292, 310, 353, 360, 376, 383
consequences of, 14, 295, 336–337, 352, 380–384
post-Soviet crisis, 14, 287, 292, 310–312, 326–337, 352–354, 360, 383
vodka and, 12–14, 83, 269–271, 282–286, 330–332, 376, 382–383
demokratizatsiya, 262, 294
Denikin, Anton, 205
Denmark, 45, 55, 163–164
Denver, 173
desomorphine, 374
detente, 239
Development of Capitalism in Russia, 145
diamonds, 249, 257, 339
Diderot, 49
Dinamo Stadium, 171, 424n16
diphtheria, 329
dissent, 16–17, 61, 237–249, 253, 257, 268
distillation, xiii, 10, 67–73, 78–80, 85, 90, 104, 108, 118–119, 145, 187, 191–196, 207, 312–318, 347
distilled spirits, 18–19, 28, 65, 70–73, 78–80, 82, 106, 312–316, 330, 373, 382–383
Divine Comedy, 327, 380
divorce, 276–277, 334, 389
Djilas, Milovan, 3, 28
Dmitry Donskoi, 164
Dnieper River, 78
Dobrynin, Anatoly, 24–25, 239
Dogger Banks incident, 164–165
Dolgikh, Vladimir, 278, 447n62
Domestic Order, 85
domestic violence, 11, 145, 186, 276, 332–335, 423n72
Domostroi. See Domestic Order
Don River, 77, 195, 211
Dorpat, 30
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 129–130, 135–138, 145
Douglass, Frederick, 115–116
Dovzhenko, Aleksandr, 21
Dreseden, 344
drinking cultures, 18, 75, 79–91, 110, 190, 253, 312, 322, 330, 369, 382, 388
modern, 84, 89–91, 330
traditional, 83–91, 104–105, 330
drug abuse, xii, 138, 282, 327, 329, 335
Drunkards, 136
drunkenness. See alcoholism
drunken driving, 11, 276, 282, 346, 353, 366, 369
dry laws. See prohibition
Dr. Zhivago, 63, 313
dual power, 199–200
Dudayev, Dzhokhar, 303
Duke University, 213, 251, 252
Duma (parliament)
imperial, 175, 177, 180, 189, 192, 198–199
post-Soviet, xii, 304, 348–350, 374–376, 379–380
Dunlop, John, 118
dysentery, 206, 329
Dzerzhinsky, Felix, 202–203
Dzugashvili, Joseph Vissarionovich (Stalin). See Stalin, Joseph
Easter, 85, 104, 106, 147, 214
East Indies, 163
eau-de-cologne, 190, 211, 243, 282, 331
Eberstadt, Nicholas, xvi, 331, 352
Eden, Anthony, 233
education, 15, 93, 193, 241, 281, 319, 361–362, 390
Egypt, 70
Eisenstein, Sergei, 20–26, 30, 32, 200, 232
Ekaterinburg, 184, 269, 295, 358
Ekaterinoslav, 187
Ekspert (magazine), 341
Elbe River, 236
Elizabeth I, English queen, 81
Elizabeth Petrovna, Tsarina, 50–52, 55, 58, 291
drinking habits of, 52
Emancipation Proclamation, 122–123
embezzlement, 92, 107, 146, 247, 342–343, 373–374
See also corruption
Emelianenko, Fedor, 378–379
Engels, Friedrich, 9, 127–129, 143, 223
England, 40, 78, 114–115, 118, 128–129, 157–158, 164, 186, 191, 201
Enlightenment, 49, 58, 117
Epiphany, 84
Eraserhead (film), 20
Erofeyev, Venedikt, 242–243, 254, 276
Erofeyev, Viktor, 11, 78, 267, 282, 355
Esquire (magazine), 92
Estonia, 30, 76, 119, 205, 317, 382
Ethiopia, xii, 92
Euromoney (magazine), 376
European Court of Human Rights, 343
European Union, 323, 408n27
famine, xii, 2, 5, 15–16, 24, 102, 195, 199, 206–209, 214, 222, 225, 229–230, 234, 236, 309
Father Mathew, 118, 134
Fatherland, 349–350
See also United Russia
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 242
February Revolution (1917), 189, 191, 193, 198–200, 279
federalism, 283–285, 302–303, 320, 345–346, 388
Federation Council, 345
Fenton, Tom, 326–329, 332–333, 336–337
Feodosia, 72
Ferdinand, Franz, 178
fermentation, 67, 70–82, 330, 373, 383–384
fertility. See birth rate
Feshbach, Murray, xvi, 249–253, 265, 275, 286, 326–337, 365
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, 275–276, 336
Figes, Orlando, 143
Finland, 68, 119, 205, 261
Finland Guard Regiment, 203
Finland Station, 200
Finlandia, 314
First Circle, 245
First Person, 344
First Time in History, 217
Five-Year Plans. See Soviet Union, administrative command economy
Fleming, Harold, 211
Fletcher, Giles, 32, 81
Forbes (magazine), 355–356, 358
Fort Wallace, 173
Foucault, Michel, 17–18
France, 46, 53, 78, 116, 118, 121, 128, 150–160, 164, 172, 179, 195, 233, 244, 338, 391
Frank, Joseph, 130
Franklin, Benjamin, xv
Frederick II (the Great), Prussian king, 53, 58
Freedom of Information Act, 285
Fridman, Mikhail, 124
Fuller, William C., Jr., 150
fuel oils, 67
Fyodor I, Tsar, 32, 34–35
Fyodor III, Tsar, 37
gabelle. See salt tax
GAI. See State Automobile Inspectorate
Galicia, 195–196
Gandhi, Mahatma, 139
Gapminder Foundation, 310–311, 322
&nb
sp; Garbuzov, Vasily, 272–273, 280, 375, 447n64
Garrett, Laurie, 333–335
Gazprom, 340–342, 348, 355–357, 361–364
Gdansk, 61
Geneva, 333
Genoa, 71–73
Genoa Conference (1922), 220
genocide, 2, 295, 348
geoalcoholcs, 75–78, 410n4
beer-drinking regions, 75–78, 322–323, 330–332, 382
wine-drinking regions, 75–78, 267, 272, 284, 322–323, 330–332, 382
spirits-drinking regions, 75–78, 267, 284, 322–323, 330–332, 382
Georgetown University, 249, 286
Georgia, Republic of, 3, 215, 272, 284, 288, 292, 314–316, 333, 363
Germany, 2, 4, 40, 52–56, 62, 76–77, 81, 102, 108, 117, 128, 131, 150, 164, 172, 176, 179, 182, 191, 205, 230–236, 272, 297–298, 311, 333, 344
gerontocracy, 256, 259, 296, 306
Ghana, 13
gin, 70
glasnost, 262–266, 275, 282, 286, 288
Glavspirt. See Soviet Union, vodka monopoly in
Global financial crisis (2007–8), 362–363, 367, 376
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 58
Gogol, Nikolai, 410n3
Golden Horde, 27
Golden Ring, 33
Goldman, Marshall, 340–341
Golikova, Tatyana, 373–374
Golitsyn, Boris, 39
Golitsyn, Mikhail, 54
Gomel, 210
gonorrhea, 276
gonzo journalism, 242–243
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 13, 18, 59, 256, 258–273, 276, 283, 293–294, 302–303, 309, 336, 345, 368
August coup and removal of power of, 288, 291–292
anti-alcohol campaign of, 262, 266–273, 312–313, 333, 354, 367–372, 376, 368
political reforms by, 260, 262–273, 276–280, 283–289, 333
See also perestroika and glasnost
Gorbacheva, Raisa, 259, 267
Goremykin, Ivan, 193
Gorky, Maxim, 202, 208
Goskomstat, 244–245, 265, 317, 327–328
Gothenburg System, 385–391
Grachev, Pavel, 290–291, 297–298, 303
graft, 92–93, 109, 313, 366
See also corruption
Grande Armée, 150–154
Grant, Ulysses S., 173
Great Britain, 78, 111, 120–121, 124, 128, 134, 150, 155–160, 164–165, 179, 201, 205, 208, 233, 244, 260, 271, 367
See also England
Great Depression, 230, 310–311
“Great Eagle,” 42–46
See also Peter I (the Great), Tsar, “Jolly Company”
Great Leap Forward, 327
Great Northern War, 45, 50, 111, 112
Great Patriotic War. See World War II
Great Recession. See Global financial crisis (2007–8)
Great War. See World War I
Greece, 27, 70, 73, 77
Gref, German, 355
Grinberg, Ruslan, 364
Grodno, 118
Gromyko, Andrei, 239, 254–256, 261–262, 269–272
Grozny, 303
Gryaznoi, Vasily, 32
Guardianship for Public Sobriety, 172, 176–177
Gulag Archipelago, 240–241
Gulags. See labor camps
Gurko, Vasily, 188
Gusinsky, Vladimir, 342, 361
Habsburgs, 27, 99
Hague, 65
Hamlet, 23
Hamptons, 358
Hanseatic Legue, 67, 73
Harvard University, 211, 306–307
Haxthausen, Baron von, 89, 102, 117
health policy, xii, 14, 180, 193, 251, 328, 345–347, 371
and vodka, 11, 13, 83, 118, 219, 241, 244, 263, 269, 330, 347, 353, 369
healthcare infrastructure, 14, 180, 193, 241, 247, 281, 309–310, 321, 326–332, 345–346, 352–353, 361–362, 364–366, 369, 376, 388, 390
heart disease. See cardiovascular disease, 309
Helsinki, 261
Henry I, English king, 78
hepatitis, 352
Herberstein, Sigismund von, 27–29, 300
Herlihy, Patricia, xiv
Hermitage Capital Management, 343
Herzen, Aleksandr, 96, 120–121, 129–130, 136
Hewett, Ed, 280
high-modernism, 15–17
Hilger, Gustaf, 4
Hilton, Paris, 358
Hitler, Adolf, 2–3, 20, 230–234, 253, 275, 298
Hockey Federation of Russia, 315
Hollywood, 20, 316, 391
Holstein, 46, 50, 52, 55
Holy Roman Empire, 27, 48, 151
homelessness, 329, 334–335
homicide. See murder.
Homo Sovieticus. See “New Soviet Man”
hooliganism, 11, 88, 223–224, 254, 276–277, 332, 378
Hoover, Herbert, 208–209
Hotel Moskva, 66, 407n26
human rights, xi, 237, 241–242, 296, 303, 343, 389
Hundred Chapters, 84
Hungary, 56, 99, 155, 256–257, 264, 269, 330–331, 381
Hussars, 156, 169, 175
hyperinflation, 189, 193, 213, 280–283, 288, 295, 308, 313
Iberian Peninsula, 163
ice palace, 54–55
Icon and the Axe, 72
Igor Konstantinovich, Prince, 183–184
Igumensky district, 187
Illarionov, Andrei, 354–355
imperial Russia, 10–11, 17, 26, 39, 83–89, 106, 108, 111, 140, 285, 309, 351, 382
armed forces of, 39–40, 54–59, 83, 95, 108–112, 121, 149–179, 382
censorship in, 119–121, 125, 129, 131, 135, 138, 176
Commission on the Question of Alcoholism in, 388–389
corruption in, 93–110, 121, 135, 146, 388–389
Duma in, 175, 177, 180, 189, 192, 198–199
feudalism in, 10, 79–83, 90–93, 104–108, 111, 121, 127, 135, 139, 145, 247
financial reliance on vodka, 10–14, 26, 49, 81–83, 95–100, 108–117, 122–127, 139–140, 211, 247, 285, 371–372
Ministry of Finance, 95, 99–100, 109, 112–113, 118–119, 139, 146, 176–180, 185–188, 192–194, 388
Ministry of internal affairs, 119, 187
opposition to temperance by, 106–107, 118–121, 124–126, 139–140, 176, 210
See also Liquor Tax Rebellion
secret police in, 129–130, 140, 143–144
serfdom in, 79–85, 90–91, 104, 108, 111–112, 116–121, 138, 150
State Council of, 121
taxes in, 47, 83, 84, 85, 94–111, 119–121, 185, 192
village commune in, 102–104, 138, 150
Witte’s vodka monopolyin, 176–178, 185, 192–195, 204, 207, 211, 338, 387–389
Independent Order of Rechabites, 118
India, 163, 329
Indian Ocean, 163
industrialization, 2, 15, 216, 221–225, 235, 264, 281, 310
Industrial Revolution, 117, 128, 150
infant mortality, 245, 250–251, 265, 275, 326, 442n27
infertility, 333, 336
inflation, 185, 189, 192–195, 213, 275, 280–283, 288, 295, 308–309, 313
Inglehart, Ronald, 324
Ingushetia, 321
inns, 97, 157, 187
International Court of Justice (ICJ), 65
international law, 65–67, 244
International Women’s Day, 199
Ionin, Leonid, 277
Ipatiev House, 184, 293
Ireland, 118, 134, 301–302
iron, 202, 222–223
Isidore, 73
Iskra, 146
Islam, 71, 77, 272, 284, 304, 332
Istoriya vodka (History of Vodka), 61–64
See also Pokhlebkin, Vilyam
Italy, 71, 73, 191, 327–328, 378
Ivan IV Grozny (the Terrible), Tsar, xiv, 18–21, 26, 29–30, 34–35, 41, 48, 64, 80, 84, 125, 153, 228, 232, 372, 387, 401n36
drinking habits of, 21, 23, 2
9–30, 33
establishment of tsar’s taverns by, 32, 64, 81, 94, 113, 387
forcing colleagues to drink, 21, 23, 30–32, 35, 293
fornication by, 29–30, 33
murder and torture by, 29–32, 35, 46
murder of son, Ivan Ivanovich, 33–34
parallels with Joseph Stalin, 21, 23, 30–31, 46, 228
paranoia of, 30–31, 33
Ivan Ivanovich, Tsarevich, 33–35
Ivan Konstantinovich, Prince, 183–184
Ivan the Terrible (film), 20–22, 26, 30, 232
See also Ivan IV Grozny (the Terrible)
Ivan the Terrible II: The Boyars’ Plot (film), 21–24, 32–33
Ivan the Terrible III (film), 23
Ivan V, Tsar, 27–28, 45
Ivan VI, Tsar, 55
Izmailovsky Park, 60, 67, 74
Izvestiya, 66, 223, 244, 303
James I, English king, 78
Japan, 111, 160–168, 174, 196, 231, 233, 310
See also Russo-Japanese War
Jesus, 106, 131
Johnnie Walker, 257
Johnson, William E. “Pussyfoot,” 186
Judaism, 71, 77, 234
judo, 344, 354–355, 358, 372–373, 378–379
Juel, Just, 45–46
Julian calendar, 47
Just Russia, 349
kabak (tavern). See tavern
Kachkanar, 343
Kaganovich, Lazar, 5–6
Kaganovich, Mikhail, 5
Kahan, Arcadius, 114
Kalinin, Mikhail, 216
Kamenev, Lev, 221, 224
Kamchatka (warship), 164
Kamchatka Peninsula, 309
Kant, Immanuel, 58
Kapital, 128, 130
Karelia, 68
Karlin, Anatoly, xvi, 381, 457n3
Karpov, Pytor A., 320
Kasparov, Garry, 372
Kaunas, 118–119
Kazakhstan, 230, 239, 289–290
Kazan, 20, 30, 80, 99, 149
Kelley, William, 208–209
Kelly, Walter, 58
Kengor, Paul, 285–286
Kennan, George F., 240, 428n23
Kerensky, Aleksandr, 199–200, 387
kerosene, 19, 208, 211
Kettler, Friedrich Wilhelm, 45
KGB. See Committee for State Security (KGB)
Khaltourina, Daria, 327–328
Kharitonov, Pyotr, 188
Kharkov, 97, 196
Kharkov Tractor Factory, 254
Khasbulatov, Ruslan, 283, 289, 295–297
Khazaria, 77
Khodorkovsky, Mikhail, 320, 343
Khodynka Fields, 171–172, 190, 424n16
Khodynka Megasport Ice Arena, 171
Khomassuridze, Archil, 333–334
Khrulev, Andrei, 5
Khrushchev, Nikita, 1–9, 24, 30–32, 237, 254, 259, 263, 300, 343
and corruption, 93, 239
and de-Stalinization, 24, 237, 239, 244
“thaw” policies, 1, 24, 237, 239, 245
Khvorostyan, Viktor, 316
kickbacks, 92, 97, 102, 119, 362, 365–366
See also corruption
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