Bolsheviks and the Bottle

ISBN-13: 9780875802640 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 220 str.

Laura L. Phillips

Opis

This study of drinking provides insights into changes and continuities in everyday life among St Petersburg's revolutionary workers. Drawing on a wide range of sources, it offers insight into issues of revolutionary change, class and gender probing the tenacious resiliency of alcohol-centred culture in the face of state efforts at prohibition.