Vodka Politics (118 page)

in World War II,
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See also
St. Petersburg, Petrograd

Leningrad State University,
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361

Levada Center,
362

Levi, Margaret,
150

Levi’s,
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Lewenberg, A.
234

Libau,
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Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR),
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liberalism,
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Liber de Vinis
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Library of Congress,
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n
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Licensing Act (Sweden),
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Life
(magazine),
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life expectancy,
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Ligachev, Yegor,
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Lincoln, Abraham,
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Linnaeus, Carl,
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Liquor Tax Rebellion,
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Lithuania,
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Litvinenko, Aleksandr,
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liver disease,
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Liverpool,
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Livonia.
See
Latvia

Lloyd, Hannibal Evans,
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Llull, Ramon,
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loans-for-shares scandal,
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Loches, Pion des,
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Lomonosov, Mikhail,
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London,
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London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,
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Lopukhina, Evdokiya,
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Lopukhov, Dmitry,
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Los Angeles Times
,
368

Louis Vuitton,
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Louis XV, French king,
52

Lukashov, Colonel,
161

Lunacharsky, Anatoly,
202

Lüshunkou.
See
Port Arthur

Luther, Martin,
26

Lutheran church,
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50

Lutz, Wolfgang,
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Luzhkov, Yury,
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Lyubyanka Prison,
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Lynch, David,
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Machiavelli, Niccolò,
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Madagascar,
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mafiya
,
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358

Magnitsky, Sergei,
343

Maggs, Peter,
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Maine Law,
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Majorca,
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Malakhov Hill,
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Malakhov, Mikhail,
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malaria,
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Malenkov, Georgy,
6
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8

Manchester,
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Manchuria,
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Manchurian Railway,
166

Manhattan,
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Manyukhin, Viktor,
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Mao Zedong,
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Marburg,
150

Markelov,
141

market economy.
See
capitalism

Marmeladov,
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137

marriage rate,
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martial law,
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Marx, Karl,
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Marxism,
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opposition to alcohol,
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Matryona’s House
,
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Matveyev, Artamon,
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McCormick, Frederick,
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McKee, Martin,
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mead,
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measles,
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Mediterranean Sea,
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Medvedev, Dmitry,
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and anti-alcohol campaign,
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Mendeleyev, Dmitry,
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Menshikov, Aleksandr Danilovich,
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Menshikov, Aleksandr Sergeyevich,
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Meshchersky, Prince,
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methyl alcohol,
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Mexico,
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Meyer, Herbert E.,
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Michigan, University of,
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Mikhailov, Evgeny,
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Mikhailov, Peter.
See
Peter I (the Great)

Mikhailov, Vasily,
61

Mikoyan, Anastas,
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–
8
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Military Revolutionary Committee,
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Military Revolutionary Court,
202

Miloslavskaya, Maria,
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Minsk,
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Mintslov, Ivan,
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mir. See
imperial Russia, village commune in

Mitkov, Mochan,
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mixed martial arts (MMA),
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mobilization riots.
See
war mobilization

Moldova,
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Molotov cocktail,
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Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (1939),
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Molotov, Vycheslav,
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8
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Mongolian still,
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Mongols,
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monkeys,
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Mons, Anna,
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Montebello, Marquis de,
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Montesquieu,
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Monson, Jeff,
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moonshining.
See
vodka, home-brewed (
samogon
)

Mordovia,
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mortality,
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Moscow,
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