Vodka Politics (123 page)

Shushkevich, Stanislau,
292

Siam,
163

Siberia,
120
,
135
,
140
,
143
–
145
,
204
,
228
,
237
,
258
,
293

Sierra Leone,
92

Simpson, J. Y.,
124

Sioux tribe,
173

sistema
,
93
,
99
,
107
–
108
,
343
,
356
,
373
,
375

Skuratov, Malyuta,
21
,
32
–
33
,
46

Slavic Review
,
64

Slavkov u Brna,
151

Slavs,
27
,
68
,
72
,
77
,
322
–
323
,
382

Smirnoff vodka,
66

Smirnov, A. P.,
68
–
70

Smith, Hedrick,
249

Smith, Michael David,
379

smoking.
See
tobacco

Smolensk,
103
,
149
,
154
,
210

Sobchak, Anatoly,
290
,
344
,
361

Sobornoye Ulozhenie
,
79
,
113

Sochi,
92
,
299
,
367
–
368
,
378

socialism,
10
,
62
,
117
,
127
–
129
,
135
,
140
–
141
,
175
,
199
–
202
,
236
,
240
,
260
,
283
,
308

revolution in,
128
–
129
,
135
,
140
,
143
–
148
,
199
–
202
,
221

See also
Marxism

Socialist Revolutionary Party,
174

social revolution,
129
,
189
,
221

Society for the Struggle against Alcoholism (OBSA),
223
–
225
,
263
,
438
n
28

Solidarity movement,
61
,
66

Solomentsev, Mikhail,
268
–
272
,
279

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr,
237
–
242
,
245
,
257
,
268

Somalia,
xii

Sophia Alekseyevna, Regent,
38
–
39
,
44
,
54
,
58

Sophia Augusta Frederica.
See
Catherine II (the Great), Tsarina

Soskovets, Oleg,
301

soul tax.
See
poll tax

South Ossetia,
363

Sovetsky ekran
(magazine),
228

Soviet-Polish “vodka war,”
61
–
62
,
65
–
67
,
74
,
408
n
27

Soviet Union,
15
–
16
,
62
,
65
,
113
,
213
–
215
,
236
,
241
,
249
,
252
–
253
,
262
,
286
,
29
–
294
,
309
,
323
,
326
,
351
,
382
,
391

Academy of Sciences of,
61
,
250
–
251
,
276
,
284

administrative command economy,
15
,
93
,
222
–
230
,
236
,
254
–
256
,
260
–
262
,
265
–
266
,
275
–
276
,
284
–
285
,
292
,
295
,
306
,
313

anti-alcohol campaign in,
262
–
285
,
312
–
313
,
333
,
354
,
367
–
372
,
376

armed forces of,
59
,
61
,
150
,
230
–
236
,
252
,
260
,
289
,
302
–
303

censorship in,
20
,
61
,
202
,
237
,
240
,
248
,
262
,
265
,
275
,
288

dissidents in,
61
,
236
–
249
,
253
,
257
,
264
–
265
,
268
,
360

financial reliance on petrochemicals,
280
–
281

financial reliance on vodka,
11
–
16
,
66
,
213
,
219
–
223
,
242
,
252
–
254
,
265
–
266
,
270
–
273
,
280
–
285
,
312
,
371
–
372

gigantism in,
16
,
227

Gosplan of,
222
–
223
,
247
,
251
,
271
–
272

Higher Scientific Research Institute of the Fermentation Products Division of the Central Department of Distilling of the Ministry of the Food Industry of,
62

Ministry of Finance,
247
,
272
,
280
–
281

Ministry of Health,
251

Ministry of Trade,
247
,
313

nationalist tensions in,
275
,
283
–
285
,
287

and Red Army,
16
,
61
,
198
,
203
–
205
,
217
,
228
,
232
–
234
,
237
,
240
,
298

secret police in,
2
,
4
,
7
,
21
,
202
,
205
,
228
–
230

stagnation in,
239
–
243
,
254
–
256
,
259
–
262
,
265
–
266
,
275
–
276
,
291
,
300
,
306
–
307
,
312

temperance in,
211
–
212
,
242
,
263
–
273

Union of Writers in,
240

vodka monopoly in,
16
,
32
,
212
,
216
–
223
,
245
,
252
–
254
,
265
–
266
,
312
,
387
–
389

worker discipline in,
201
,
222
–
224
,
230
–
234
,
254
,
257
–
260
,
263
,
267
,
271
,
276
,
280

wet/dry leadership divisions,
25
,
242
,
256
–
262
,
266
–
273

Sovnarkom.
See
Council of People’s Commissars (
Sovnarkom
)

Sovremennik
(magazine),
130
–
133
,
136

Soyuzplodoimport,
62
,
66
,
342

Spain,
71
,
165
,
331

Spanish flu,
206
,
310
,
328

Specter, Michael,
352

spetskhran
,
253

Spirit of Laws
,
75

spirits.
See
distilled spirits

sport,
171
,
212
,
254
,
263
–
264
,
268
,
315
,
344
,
355

Spotted Tail,
173

squirrel,
369

St. Basil’s Cathedral,
80
,
295

St. Nicholas Day,
85

St. Paul,
131

St. Petersburg,
11
,
41
–
45
,
49
,
53
–
56
,
59
–
60
,
99
,
130
–
131
,
135
–
136
,
143
–
147
,
156
,
160
,
164
,
167
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169
,
175
,
177
,
290
,
344
,
354
,
375

See also
Leningrad, Petrograd

St. Petersburg, University of,
144

stabilnost. See
Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, and stability

Stalingrad,
231
,
233
,
234

Stalin, Joseph,
1
–
11
,
15
–
19
,
22
–
24
,
41
,
46
,
73
,
109
,
215
–
237
,
240
,
262
,
309
,
338
,
408
n
26

cult of personality,
23
–
24
,
221
,
237

and “dizzy with success,”
229
–
230
,
278

drinking habits of,
2
,
5
–
7
,
230
–
233
,
235
,
307
,
343
,
394
n
3
,
395
n
23

forcing colleagues to drink,
2
–
9
,
19
,
231
–
233
,
293

and
Ivan the Terrible
(film),
20
–
24
,
32

love of movies,
20
,
23

parallels with Ivan the Terrible,
21
–
23
,
30
–
32
,
46

reinstatement of vodka monopoly,
16
,
32
,
217
–
223
,
227
,
235
,
267
,
338
,
387

rise to power of,
217
–
220

totalitarian reign of,
2
–
9
,
15
–
16
,
19
,
20
–
24
,
32
,
202
,
230
,
235
–
236
,
268