Vodka Politics (110 page)

30
. Irina Filatova, “‘Millionaire’ Doctors Part of Solution to Demographic Problem,”
Moscow Times
, Jan. 27, 2013,
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/millionaire-doctors-part-of-solution-to-demographic-problem/474606.html
(accessed Jan. 28, 2013).

31
. Gil et al., “Alcohol Policy in a Russian Region,” 6; Richard Sakwa,
The Crisis of Russian Democracy: The Dual State, Factionalism and the Medvedev Succession
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 361.

32
. Lilia Shevtsova,
Russia—Lost in Transition: The Yeltsin and Putin Legacies
(Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2007), 158.

33
. Vladimir Putin, “Poslaniye Prezidenta Federal’nomu Sobraniyu,” Kremlin.ru, Dec. 12, 2012,
http://news.kremlin.ru/transcripts/17118
(accessed Dec. 12, 2012).

34
. Martha Wexler, “Young Russian Politician Fights from the Bottom Up,” NPR, March 19, 2012,
http://www.npr.org/2012/03/19/148924951/young-russian-politician-fights-from-the-bottom-up
(accessed March 19, 2012).

35
. Andrei K. Demin and Irina A. Demina, “Opyt grazhdanskogo obshchestva v reshenii problem zloupotrebleniya alkogolem v Rossiiskoi Federatsii: Deyatel’nost’ Rossiiskoi Assotsiatsii Obshchestvennogo Zdorov’ya,” in
Alkogol’naya katastrofa i vozmozhnosti gosudarstvennoi politiki v preodolenii alkogol’noi sverkosmertnosti v Rossii
, ed. Dar’ya A. Khalturina and Andrei V. Korotaev (Moscow: Lenand, 2010), 368.

36
. Will Rogers,
There’s Not a Bathing Suit in Russia & Other Bare Facts
(New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927), 25–31. In a similar vein see Hedrick Smith,
The Russians
(New York: Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co., 1976), 120.

37
. Rogers,
There’s Not a Bathing Suit in Russia
, 31.

INDEX

Abalkin, Leonid,
362

Abkhazia,
363

abolitionism,
111
,
115
,
120
,
122

abortion,
245
,
251
,
265
,
276
,
285
,
333
–
334

Absolut,
314

“administrative resources,”
317
,
343

See also
corruption

Aeroflot,
301
–
302

Afghan War Veterans’ Union,
315

Afghanistan,
14
,
239
,
264
,
382

Africa,
xii
–
xiii
,
13
,
57
,
71
,
92
,
163
,
327
,
352
,
381

Aganbegyan, Abel,
276
,
282
–
284

agriculture,
80
,
133
,
188
–
189
,
193
–
196
,
206
,
210
,
225
–
230
,
240
,
260
,
279
,
314
,
319
–
320
,
361
,
385
–
388

AIDS,
13
,
327
,
329
,
352
,
380
–
381

Alapaevsk,
184

alchemists,
28
,
37
,
70
–
74
,
91

alcohol,
10
,
16
,
23
,
63
,
71
,
185
,
194
,
230
,
259
,
263
–
267
,
314
–
315
,
332
,
344
,
348

and climate,
75
,
267
,
284

consumption per capita,
13
–
14
,
232
,
244
–
246
,
250
–
253
,
265
,
275
–
276
,
312
,
316
,
329
–
330
,
367
,
369
,
385
,
387

used to quell dissent,
16
–
19
,
23
,
113
–
122
,
176
,
241
–
242
,
268
,
283

Alcohol in the USSR
,
252
–
253

alcohol-control measures,
15
,
276
–
278
,
282
,
346
,
353
–
357
,
366
,
368
,
373
,
382
,
386

education/propaganda,
263
,
268
,
278
,
281
,
353
,
366
–
369
,
386

legal drinking age,
263
,
346
,
353
,
368
–
369

restriction on hours of sale,
263
,
270
,
276
–
278
,
282
,
353
,
368
,
386

restriction on locations of sale,
263
,
270
–
271
,
276
–
278
,
282

alcohol poisoning,
88
,
114
–
115
,
134
,
160
,
190
,
200
,
211
,
213
,
219
,
226
,
238
–
241
,
252
,
261
,
277
,
282
,
309
,
314
–
319
,
330
–
331
,
352
,
356
,
369
–
370
,
382
,
387
,
463
n
57

Alcoholics Anonymous,
385

alcoholism,
17
,
82
,
87
–
91
,
113
–
115
,
131
,
147
–
148
,
170
–
172
,
213
,
242
,
244
,
248
,
254
–
255
,
257
,
260
,
263
,
267
–
268
,
276
,
294
,
301
,
316
,
331
–
336
,
348
,
369
–
370
,
374
,
386
,
389

as top social challenge,
xii
,
11
,
75
,
267
,
276
,
367
,
389

and children,
86
–
87
,
137
,
275
–
276
,
334
–
336
,
352
,
366
,
370
,
373

and demographics,
xii
,
11
,
83
,
213
,
267
–
271
,
275
–
276
,
282
,
285
,
287
,
295
,
310
,
331
–
337
,
352
–
354
,
381

and developmental disabilities,
38
,
213
,
275
–
276
,
335
–
336
,
388

and divorce,
276
–
277
,
334
,
389

and women,
86
,
131
,
136
,
275
–
276
,
332
,
370

ale.
See
beer

Aleksandr, Prince of Oldenberg,
177
,
196

Alexander I, Tsar,
58
,
111
,
150

and Napoleonic Wars,
111
,
151
–
154

Alexander II, Tsar,
109
,
143
–
144
,
427
n
9

and abolition of serfdom,
108
,
121
–
122
,
143
,
159

and abolition of vodka tax farm,
108
,
111
,
122
,
124
,
159

Alexander III, Tsar,
108
,
144
,
170
–
171
,
176

Alexander Lyceum,
182

Alexandra Fyodorovna, Tsarina,
171
–
172

Alexei Aleksandrovich, Grand Duke,
172
–
174

Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich,
178

Aleksandrov, Grigory,
20

Aleksandrovskaya Sloboda,
33
,
41

Alexander Nevsky
(film),
20
,
26
,
232

Alexei Aleksandrovich, Grand Duke,
163

Alexei Mikhailovich, Tsar,
36
,
86

Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich,
47
–
48

Alix of Hesse.
See
Alexandra Fyodorovna, Tsarina

Aliyev, Heydar,
272
–
273
,
447
n
62

Alliluyeva, Svetlana,
8

All Russia party,
349
–
350

See also
United Russia

All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM),
xi

All-Russian Congress on the Struggle against Drunkenness,
177

All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counterrevolution and Sabotage (Cheka),
202
–
205

See also
People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD)
and
Committee for State Security (KGB)

All-Russian Labor Union of Christian Teetotalers,
181
–
182

All-Union Voluntary Society for the Struggle for Temperance,
263

Alma River, Battle of,
155
–
157

Almaty,
289
,
292
,
323

Altai Republic,
319

AK-47 (Kalashnikov),
xi
,
339
,
341

American Relief Administration (ARA),
208
–
211

American Temperance Society (ATS),
117
–
118

Amish,
105

ammonia,
208

Amnesty International,
343

anarchism,
139
,
205
,
378

Anastasia Romanova,
30

Andreyevsky Hall,
340
,
362
–
363

Andropov, Yury,
256
–
263
,
268
,
270
,
285