Its taken me some time to introduce myself. I am in the final stages of writing a dissertation on drinking, temperance and cultural revolution among Russian workers, 1900-1933. It is a social and cultural history. In a nutshell, I am looking at the historical contexts within which drinking became a social problem in Russia, how various forms of statist and revolutionary ideolgies accommadated the issues of drinking and temperance and how the solutions to problems raise by drinking (and temperance) changed those historical contexts. Ultimately I am comparing drinking among workers and the educated elites' discourse about that in the pre- and post-revolutionary period to see what the Bolshevik project was beyond transfering the means of production to the working class and to see how the revolution was interpreted and experienced from the shop floor, the tavern, and the street. I have read extensively on the French experience, but would like some suggestions on some secondary readings in the British and German experience. Also, has any work been done on the Finnish temperance movement? Thanks. Kathy Transchel [log in to unmask]