发表于2024-12-23
Vodka Politics 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 俄罗斯 政治学 历史 苏联 Non-Fiction 英文原版 伏特加 history
Russia is famous for its vodka, and its culture of extreme intoxication. But just as vodka is central to the lives of many Russians, it is also central to understanding Russian history and politics.
In Vodka Politics, Mark Lawrence Schrad argues that debilitating societal alcoholism is not hard-wired into Russians' genetic code, but rather their autocratic political system, which has long wielded vodka as a tool of statecraft. Through a series of historical investigations stretching from Ivan the Terrible through Vladimir Putin, Vodka Politics presents the secret history of the Russian state itself-a history that is drenched in liquor. Scrutinizing (rather than dismissing) the role of alcohol in Russian politics yields a more nuanced understanding of Russian history itself: from palace intrigues under the tsars to the drunken antics of Soviet and post-Soviet leadership, vodka is there in abundance.
Beyond vivid anecdotes, Schrad scours original documents and archival evidence to answer provocative historical questions. How have Russia's rulers used alcohol to solidify their autocratic rule? What role did alcohol play in tsarist coups? Was Nicholas II's ill-fated prohibition a catalyst for the Bolshevik Revolution? Could the Soviet Union have become a world power without liquor? How did vodka politics contribute to the collapse of both communism and public health in the 1990s? How can the Kremlin overcome vodka's hurdles to produce greater social well-being, prosperity, and democracy into the future?
Viewing Russian history through the bottom of the vodka bottle helps us to understand why the "liquor question" remains important to Russian high politics even today-almost a century after the issue had been put to bed in most every other modern state. Indeed, recognizing and confronting vodka's devastating political legacies may be the greatest political challenge for this generation of Russia's leadership, as well as the next.
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评分这本比较厚,看得稍久了一些,非常精彩!从沙俄开始写起的俄罗斯政治与伏特加的纠葛与挣扎。一开始对这种切入点很小的历史写法存疑(ps作者其实是政治学者),但是就俄罗斯而言伏特加这个切入点选得真好啊。引人入胜,值得一读!
评分这本比较厚,看得稍久了一些,非常精彩!从沙俄开始写起的俄罗斯政治与伏特加的纠葛与挣扎。一开始对这种切入点很小的历史写法存疑(ps作者其实是政治学者),但是就俄罗斯而言伏特加这个切入点选得真好啊。引人入胜,值得一读!
评分这本比较厚,看得稍久了一些,非常精彩!从沙俄开始写起的俄罗斯政治与伏特加的纠葛与挣扎。一开始对这种切入点很小的历史写法存疑(ps作者其实是政治学者),但是就俄罗斯而言伏特加这个切入点选得真好啊。引人入胜,值得一读!
Vodka Politics 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书