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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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Oxford
Clarendon
1990, 1990
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Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Summary: | 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 tax |
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Physical Description: | x, 447 p. ill |
ISBN: | 9780191678516 |