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The Dedalus Book of Vodka

Author: Geoffrey Elborn

Cover design: Marie Lane  

No other drink can claim to have influenced the course of human affairs more than vodka. “The green serpent” transformed the Russian state into a great power but it helped to destroy both tsarism and communism – as well as the lives of millions of Russian peasants.

From Boris Yeltsin being dropped in a font and Shostakovich being cured of writer’s block to “the great vodka debauch” of the Russo-Japanese War and the Churchill-Stalin drinking duel at Yalta, the spirit determined the lives of individual Russians and the fate of a nation.

Both sophisticated and brutal, vodka is the best-selling spirit in the world. Distilled from rye or the humble potato, it has been known since the fourteenth century, when it was first used as a medicine, but it took James Bond and the Cold War to make it glamorous in the West, particularly with younger drinkers.

RRP: £15.00

No. of pages: 240

Publication date: 06.06.2013

ISBN numbers:
Hardcover
978 1 907650 04 8
Ebook
978 1 909232 62 4

Rights:
World