I don't know if there is any empirical evidence of a link between domestic
violence and the closing of drink places in either Soviet Russia or the
Russian Republic, but I do know from my research on the pre-revolutionary
Russian temperance movement that some defenders of both the excise system
of drink sale and the later state monopoly argued that there would be an
increase in domestic violence if the number of privately-run taverns and
later state shops was reduced--whatever that proves.