"Very learned, very informative." -Victor Kiernan
William Pokhlebkin is a Fellow of the Institute of History at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow. His previous books include a history of tea-drinking, and a political history of Scandinavia.
Alcohol has been a far more important part of human history than
most historians have recognized, potent for good and ill. Russia
has known it under the name of vodka, and has been second to no
other country in feeling its influence. Anyone wanting to learn how
and where its distilling began, about how production became a
monopoly of the nobility and finally of the government, and about
how perestroika tried to put a stop to alcoholism, and why it has
failed, must turn to this very learned, very informative book.
*Victor Kiernan*
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