Tobacco in Russian History and Culture : The Seventeenth Century to the Present (Hardcover)

Acknowledgements. List of Figures. 1.Tabak: An Introduction. Matthew P. Romaniello and Tricia Starks.2. Muscovy’s Extraordinary Ban on Tobacco. Matthew P. Romaniello.3. Sex, Drink, and Drugs: Tobacco in Seventeenth-Century Russia. Nikolaos Chrissidis.4. Tobacco and Health in Early Modern Russia. Eve Levin. 5.Regulating Virtue and Vice in Siberia. Erika Monahan. 6. "I Think, Therefore I Smoke": Tobacco as Liberation in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature and Culture. Konstantine Klioutchkine. 7.Smokescreens: Tobacco Manufacturers’ Projections of Class and Gender in Late Imperial Advertising. Sally West.8. Tobacco Prohibitions as Ritual Language. Roy R. Robson.9. Papirosy, Smoking, and the Anti-Cigarette Movement. Tricia Starks.10. Tobacco Production in Russia: The Transition to Communism. Iu. P. Bokarev. 11."The lads indulged themselves, they used to smoke…": Tobacco and Children’s Culture in Twentieth-Century Russia. Catriona Kelly.12. "Tobacco Is Poison!" Soviet-Era Anti-Smoking Posters. Karen F. A. Fox.13. The Iava Tobacco Factory from the 1960s to the early 1990s: An Interview with The Former Director, Leonid Iakovlevich Sinel’nikov. Elizaveta Gorchakova. 14.Smokes for Big Brother: Bulgaria, the USSR, and the Politics of Tobacco in the Cold War. Mary Neuberger. 15.Tobacco and Transition: The Advent of Transnational Tobacco Companies. Anna Gilmore. 16.Up in Smoke? The Politics and Health Impact of Tobacco in Today’s Russia. Judy Twigg. List of Contributors. Index.