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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