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Alcohol and politics in post-Soviet Russia : vodka, public health and informal governance

Part of the Library of Modern Russian History series
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'You know just how serious a problem alcoholism has become for our country.

Frankly speaking, it has taken on the proportions of a national disaster.' So spoke Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in 2009 as the government launched its 'anti-alcohol campaign'.

This has subsequently been presented in simplistic terms as a top-down implementation of policy, imposed in the national interest and to preserve the nation's health in face of the ravages inflicted by widespread alcohol abuse.

In the first English-language book on Russian alcohol policy in the post-Soviet period, Anna Bailey challenges this widely accepted narrative.

Bailey shows how policy more commonly results from the competitive interactions of stakeholders with vested interests, with the state itself divided.

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I.B.Tauris
1784537020 / 9781784537029
Hardback
30/05/2017
United Kingdom
English
304 pages.
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