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Under the Influence : Working-Class Drinking, Temperance, and Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1895-1932 /

Under the Influencepresents the first investigation of the social, cultural, and political factors that affected drinking and temperance among Russian and Soviet industrial workers from 1895 to 1932. Kate Transchel examines the many meanings of working-class drinking and temperance in a variety of s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Transchel, Kate
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "Drinking ... we cannot do without it"
  • Swimming in a drunken sea
  • Tippling and temperance : constructing the drink problem in Russia
  • Sobering up the revolution
  • Demon vodka : anti-alcohol propaganda and cultural revolution
  • Liquid assets : the working classes and vodka
  • Giddy with success : the end of alcoholism in the Soviet Union.