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

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by Mark Lawrence


  direct, 95, 112–113

  indirect, 95, 112–113, 119–126, 146

  tax farmers, 94–106, 114, 119–122

  tax farming, 10, 90–91, 94–111, 133–135

  and corruption, 95–110, 119–122, 133–135, 383, 386

  Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich, 181

  tea, 61, 296, 384, 451n28

  temperance movement, 106, 111, 117–120, 124–126, 137–140, 172, 176–177, 209, 223–224, 263, 385, 388

  See also Liquor Tax Rebellion

  temperance societies, 11, 117–119, 139–140, 172, 176–177, 181–182, 223–224, 263, 385

  Ten Days that Shook the World, 203

  Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 155

  Ter-Petrossian, Levon, 292

  terrorism, xi, 13, 88, 143–144, 174, 205–206, 228, 303, 314, 339, 344–346, 389

  Texas, 370

  Thailand, 309

  Thatcher, Margaret, 260

  Thompson, Hunter S., 242

  Tiananmen Square, 287

  Tillinghast, Stanley J., 333

  Times (London), 86, 119, 266

  Time (magazine), 262, 350

  “Time of Troubles,” 34, 36, 48

  Timoshenko, Semyon, 233

  Tisse, Eduard, 22

  tobacco, 40–41, 46, 51, 57, 106, 137–138, 297, 315, 327, 331, 353, 360, 376, 378

  Tocqueville, Alexis de, 117–118

  Togo Heihachiro, 167

  tolkachi, 313, 319

  Tolstoy, Alexei, 404n50

  Tolstoy, Leo, 130, 137–140, 145, 153–158, 176–177, 237–240

  Tomsk, 204, 210, 270, 293

  torture, 5, 29–33, 38–39, 46–48, 55, 73, 79, 81, 106, 120, 241, 303

  total fertility rate (TFR), 332–333, 352, 460n29

  Toyota, 67

  trademarks, 66–67

  Transchel, Kate, xiv, xvi, 190, 224

  Transneft, 343

  Transparency International, 92

  transportation infrastructure, 160, 163, 180, 188–189, 193, 195–197, 206, 223, 229, 309–310

  Trans-Siberian Railway, 160, 163, 196, 231

  Treisman, Daniel, xvi, 361

  Treml, Vlad, xiv, xvi, 250–254, 265

  Tretyakov Gallery, 33

  Trezvost’i kultura (magazine), 223–224, 263

  Trinity Sunday, 85

  Troitsk Monastery, 38

  Trotsky, Leon, 16, 198, 205, 211–212, 215–221, 225–226, 230, 235, 244, 262, 435n13

  Troyat, Henri, 30–31, 139

  tsarist Russia. See imperial Russia

  tsar-kolokol, 240

  Tsarskoe Selo, 169, 174, 182

  tselovalniki. See tavern-keepers

  Tsushima Straits, 167, 174

  tuberculosis, 13, 329, 336, 352, 421n31

  Tula, 140

  Turgenev, Ivan, 130, 140–143, 145

  Turkey, 121, 151

  See also Ottoman Empire

  Tver, 95, 210

  Twigg, Judyth, xvi, 334

  Twitter, 364, 376

  typhoid, 206

  typhus, 109, 154, 206

  Tyrrell, Henry, 159

  Udmurtia, 30

  Ukraine, 45, 49, 76, 196, 205, 231, 234, 280, 291, 312–314, 321–323, 330

  terror-famine in, 5, 229

  Ulyanov, Aleksandr Ilitch, 144

  Ulyanov, Vladimir Ilitch (Lenin). See Lenin, Vladimir

  Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 130

  unemployment, 61, 295, 308, 313, 363

  Unibrow, Mr., 365, 466n17

  Union against Drunkenness, 139

  Union of Rightist Forces, 349

  United Nations, 1, 239, 380, 382

  United Russia, 92–93, 349, 351, 361, 375, 379

  United States, 16–17, 24, 115–118, 124, 134, 150, 155, 165–167, 173–174, 179, 193, 201–203, 210–212, 216, 219, 230, 233, 236, 240–244, 249, 253, 274, 299–301, 313, 326, 328, 334, 348, 359, 363, 370, 378–380

  alcohol in, xv, 14, 17, 115–118, 252, 316, 374, 386, 391, 398n15

  Census Bureau of, 249–251, 286

  slavery in, xiii, 115–116, 122–123

  temperance in, 117–118, 124

  Unity, 349–350, 361

  See also United Russia

  Ural Mountains, 26, 184, 205, 293

  U-2 incident, 239

  Vancouver, 300

  Van Damme, Jean Claude, 378

  varnish, 190, 210

  Vasily III (Grand Prince), 27–29, 64, 149

  Vasily Island, 203

  Vechernyaya Moskva, 63

  Vedomosti (magazine), 370

  venereal disease, 72, 276, 333

  Venice, 71, 84

  Veresayev, Vinkenty, 160–161, 166

  Vermont, 241

  Verney, Frances Parthenope, 104

  Vieonen, Mikko, 353

  Vietnam, 92, 380

  Villanova, Arnold of, 71

  Villanova University, xv–xvi

  Villari, Luigi, 125–126

  Vilnius, 118, 154, 182, 195

  Virgil, 327, 337

  Virgin Soil, 141–143

  Vishnevsky, Vsevolod, 21

  Vladimir, 32, 77

  Vladimir (the Great), Kievan grand prince, 77–78, 134, 255, 290, 384

  Vladivostok, 167–168, 175, 196

  Vneshtorgbank (VTB), 357–358, 378

  Vnukovo airport, 291, 302

  vodka, xiii, 2–3, 10–13, 17–19, 28, 37–47, 57, 60–74, 78, 89–91, 100, 118, 138, 145, 161, 169, 207, 241–243, 247, 271, 281, 289, 294, 300, 305, 312–313, 330, 341, 344, 348, 353, 368–369, 373–376

  boycotts, 175, 393n1

  See also Liquor Tax Rebellion

  consumption per capita, 14, 232, 244–246, 250–253, 265, 275, 312, 316, 329–330, 367–369, 385, 387

  and corruption, 18, 92–110, 118–120, 146, 157, 213–215, 218, 226, 240–241, 257, 262, 319–320, 356, 383, 389

  cost of production, 79, 112, 246, 312

  and counterrevolution, 202–204, 210, 227–228

  dispute over name, 61–67

  etymology, 68–70

  excise taxes on, 122–126, 146–147, 176, 312–318, 340–341, 356, 371, 375, 382, 454n13

  home-brewed (samogon), 16, 79, 157, 190, 196, 202, 206–209, 212–217, 221, 226–230, 238, 245, 251–253, 258, 261, 271, 277, 281–283, 312–320, 329–331, 335, 353–355, 366, 375, 386

  military ration. See charka

  and morality, xiii, 85, 90, 113, 118–122, 128, 133–139, 168, 186–187, 192, 207, 211, 220, 237, 240–241, 254, 269, 271, 274, 276, 282, 286, 346, 386

  municipal control of, 385–391

  origins of, 18, 60–62, 65–74, 80

  as preferred medium of barter, 13, 80, 89, 102, 213–214, 226, 238–239, 282, 310, 313, 318–321, 323

  regional monopolization of, 317–321, 339, 347

  and revolution, 13, 18, 49, 53–59, 118–121, 129–130, 143–148, 168, 180, 185–198, 201, 204, 288–290

  refuge from the state, 13, 18–19, 82, 86, 89, 115–117, 126, 197, 253, 268

  revenue potential of, 10–14, 17, 79–81, 85, 89–91, 94, 111–126, 133, 145–146, 149, 157, 162, 176, 180, 186, 192–196, 210–214, 226, 240–247, 253, 266–267, 282–285, 312, 315–320, 347, 369, 371, 375, 384

  and Russian culture, 11–14, 19, 73–91, 94, 115, 190, 208, 211, 232, 253, 267, 284, 305, 312, 322–323, 330, 368–369, 382, 391–392

  smuggling of, 97, 212–217, 312–315, 320, 353

  state monopolization of, 10, 16, 81–83, 109, 128, 138–140, 145–146, 176–178, 185, 192–195, 204, 207, 236, 245, 253, 266, 285, 387–389

  surrogates, 190, 210–211, 219, 232, 238, 245, 282, 331, 356, 371, 375–376, 432n23

  as symbol of autocratic domination, 118–121, 127–140, 197, 211, 236–238, 242–243, 283–285, 307, 391

  and tax farming, 10, 94–112, 119–122, 135

  “third shift” production of, 316, 329–331, 346, 353–357, 366

  and war, 13, 111–112, 149–170, 185, 192, 230–235, 303–304

  and worker
discipline, 201, 222–224, 230–234, 254, 257–260, 265, 271, 276, 280–282

  Vodka History Museum, 60, 67, 74

  vodka politics, xiii, 13–19, 23–26, 32–34, 42, 91, 110–113, 121–122, 133, 140, 145–148, 168–170, 177, 181, 185, 189, 207, 211, 215, 233, 241–247, 258, 262, 267–268, 281–286, 293, 309–312, 320–325, 340, 347, 372, 377, 382–386, 389

  atomizing potential opponents, 4–9, 13, 17–19, 23–28, 30–36, 45–46, 144, 147, 207–208, 235, 242, 253, 268, 285, 293, 318–321, 385–386

  definition of, 13, 133, 376

  and literature, 129–133, 139–140, 237–248

  minimizing social harms of, 91, 140, 244, 267, 281–283, 354, 371–376, 389

  revenue extraction, xiii, 10–18, 80–83, 85, 89–117, 121–126, 133, 145–149, 170, 176–180, 185–186, 192–196, 210–211, 219–221, 235–236, 241–247, 253, 266–268, 281–285, 312–321, 347, 369–377, 382–386

  state subjugation of society, xiii, 9–14, 17–19, 25–28, 34, 45, 82–83, 90–91, 106–107, 110, 113–121, 133, 139–140, 145–148, 207, 235, 241–242, 253, 283–285, 320–321, 384–386, 389

  vodka-drinking regions. See geoalcoholics, spirits-drinking regions

  Volga famine (1892), 109, 207

  Volga famine (1921–1923), 206–210, 214

  Volga River, 26, 30, 77, 80, 109, 119, 149, 231, 233, 264

  Volgodonsk, 282

  Volhynia, 234

  Volkov, Yakim, 43, 45

  Voltaire, 49, 58

  Volvo, 385

  Vorkuta, 244

  Voroshilov, Kliment, 233

  Vorotnikov, 277, 279, 447n62

  Vortigern, 78

  Vorontsova, Elizabeth, Countess, 51, 53, 56

  Vozdukhov, Timofei, 147

  Vremya (magazine), 136

  Vyazma, 152

  Wallace, D. Mackenzie, 86, 119

  Wallachia, 155

  Wall, Tim, 374

  War and Peace, 137, 153–155

  War Communism, 205–206, 210–212, 228, 440n45

  war correspondents, 155, 161

  war-making, 111, 139, 149–151, 192

  war mobilization, 160, 163, 175, 178–179, 182, 186–189, 194

  Warsaw Pact, 62

  Washington DC, 239, 249–251, 300–302

  Washington, George, xv

  Wellesley College, 340

  What Is to Be Done? (Chernyshevsky), 130–136, 140, 144–147, 420n19

  What Is to Be Done? (Lenin), 144–145

  What Is to Be Done? (Tolstoy), 138

  whisky, 25, 70, 78, 116, 134, 257, 300

  white forces, 201, 205

  “White House” (Russian parliament), 290, 296–297

  White Sea, 195, 223

  White Ship, 78

  White, Stephen, xiv, 265, 279

  white terror, 205

  “Why Do Men Stupefy Themselves?” 137–138

  Wilde, Oscar, 128

  WikiLeaks, 362

  Wilder, Gene, 338

  Wilhelm II, German Kaiser, 176, 179

  William III, English king, 41

  Wills, Garry, 274

  Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (film), 338

  wine, xiii, 3–5, 27, 29, 39–46, 56–57, 70–73, 76–78, 84, 90, 114, 118, 133–134, 145, 153, 158, 166–169, 185, 191, 200–203, 208, 217–218, 233, 242, 247, 254, 266–267, 272, 278, 281, 284, 322–323, 330, 348, 374, 378, 381–383, 384

  wine-drinking regions. See geoalcoholics, wine-drinking regions

  Winter Palace, 11, 53, 55, 174, 200–203

  storming of, 164, 200–201

  Witte, Sergei, 139–140, 146, 176–177, 180, 188, 375, 387

  World Health Organization, xii, 14, 275, 329, 333, 353, 367

  World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), 66

  World Trade Organization, 67

  World War I, 16, 113, 170, 178–208, 309, 311, 313, 338

  deserters from, 189, 191, 198–199

  World War II, 2–5, 8, 15, 20–22, 61, 230–236, 241, 244, 275, 303, 311, 334, 338, 360, 380, 388

  Yabloko, 349

  Yaguzhinsky, Paul, 39

  Yalu River, Battle of, 163

  Yanayev, Gennady, 59, 288–291

  Yaroslavl, 87

  Yaroslavsky station, 231

  Yasnaya Polyana, 140

  Yauza River, 338, 359

  Yavlinsky, Grigory, 318, 350

  Yawara-Neva judo club, 354–355, 373

  Yazov, Dmitry, 289–291

  Yeltsin, Boris, 18, 93, 287–308, 318–320, 326, 339, 343–345, 348–350, 372, 382, 387

  drinking habits of, 289–290, 292–307

  Yeltsina, Naina, 294

  Yermilov, Yury, 341

  Yosuke Matsouka, 231

  YouTube, 369

  Yudenich, Nikolai, 205

  Yugoslavia, 3, 178, 310

  Yukos, 343

  Yumasheva, Tatyana, 294, 302, 306–307

  yurt, 289

  Yury II, Grand Prince of Vladimir-Suzdal, 77

  Y2K, 306

  Zablotsky-Desyatovsky, Andrei, 87

  Zagvozdina, Natalya, 372

  Zaionchkovsky, Pyotr, 181

  zapoi. See binge drinking

  Zarya (magazine), 146

  zastoi. See Soviet Union, stagnation in

  Zavidovo, 254

  Zhao Enlai, 24

  Zhdanov, Andrei, 7, 23

  Zhirinovsky, Vladimir, 305, 349–350, 387

  Zhizhin, Yuri, 66

  Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina, 346

  Zinoviev, Grigory, 220–221, 224

  Zivenko, Sergei, 354–355

  Zotov, Nikita, 39, 42–43, 46

  Zubkov, Viktor, 373

  Zvagelsky, Viktor, 374–375

  Zyuganov, Gennady, 305–306, 349–350, 387

  Zvezda (magazine), 146

  60 Minutes, 251, 326–328, 331–334, 337, 365

 

 

 


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