GeorgiaThe alcoholic empire : vodka & politics in late Imperial Russia / Patricia HerlihyGeorgia Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002 1 Introduction 3 2 Singing One's Way to Sobriety: The State's Guardianship 14 3 Drugs Are Our Business: Physicians Stake a Claim on Therapies 36 4 Battling Booze: Strategies for Sobriety in the Military 52 5 The Church's New Social Mission 69 6 Women's Physical and Political Use of Alcohol 90 7 Tea and Symphony: The Laity Mobilizes against Alcohol 111 8 The Politics of Alcohol 129 9 Conclusion 146 Epilogue 151   Notes 163   Bibliography 215   Index 235 Descript. vi, 244 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm