Russia

Presentations

Available Here:

• "Vodka: The Elixir of Life...and Death", Dr. Ellis Rollet. (5.76MB ZIP file)
• Moscow to the End of the Line: Alcohol use in Russia as Represented by Erofeev, Professor John Kopper, Ph.D. (streamed MOV file)

Books

• Moscow to the End of the Line. Venedikt Erofeev.
• Excerpt from Russia's Health and Demographic Crises: Policy Implications and Consequences. Murray Feshbach, Ph.D. (Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars), posted with permission. (186K PDF file)

Articles and Reports

• An Ailing Russia Lives a Tough Life That's Getting Shorter, in The New York Times, December 3, 2000. Copyright © 2000 The New York Times Company. Reprinted with permission. (51K PDF file)
• "Letter from Moscow: The Russian God." Victor Erofeyev. The New Yorker, December 16, 2002.
• "A Country on the Verge." Murray Feshbach, Ph.D. (Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars). The New York Times, May 31, 2003.
• The following bibliography was developed by Dr. Ellis Rolett, Dartmouth Medical School.
• • Carlson, Per. An Unhealthy Decade : A Sociological Study of the State of Public Health in Russia, 1990-1999. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 2000.
  • Christian, David. 'Living Water': Vodka and Russian Society on the Eve of Emancipation. Oxford [England]; New York: Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1990.
  • Cornia, Giovanni Andrea, and Renato Paniccià, eds. The Mortality Crisis in Transitional Economies. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
  • DaVanzo, Julie S., and Clifford Grammich. Dire Demographics: Population Trends in the Russian Federation: RAND, 2001.
  • Garrett, Laurie. Betrayal of Trust : The Collapse of Global Public Health. 1st ed. New York: Hyperion, 2000.
  • Granville, Brigitte, and Peter Oppenheimer, eds. Russia's Post-Communist Economy. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
  • Herlihy, Patricia. The Alcoholic Empire : Vodka & Politics in Late Imperial Russia. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
  • Leon, DA, et al. "Huge Variation in Russian Mortality Rates 1984-94: Artifact, Alcohol, or What?" Lancet 350.9075 (1997): 383-8.
  • Malyutina, Sofia, et al. "Alcohol Consumption and Binge Drinking in Novosibirsk, Russia, 1985-95." Addiction 96 (2001): 987-95.
  • National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Population. Premature Death in the New Independent States. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1997.
  • Newsholme, Arthur. Red Medicine: Socialized Health in Soviet Russia. Garden City, N.Y.,: Doubleday Doran, 1933.
  • Phillips, Laura L. Bolsheviks and the Bottle : Drink and Worker Culture in St. Petersburg, 1900-1929. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2000.
  • Ryan, Michael. "Alcoholism and Rising Mortality in the Russian Federation." BMJ 310 (1995): 646-8.
  • Segal, B. M. The Drunken Society : Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism in the Soviet Union. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1987.
  • Segal, B. M. Russian Drinking: Use and Abuse of Alcohol in Pre-Revolutionary Russia. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies, 1987.
  • Sigerist, Henry E. Medicine and Health in the Soviet Union. New York,: the Citadel Press, 1947.
  • Sigerist, Henry E. Socialized Medicine in the Soviet Union. New York,: W.W. Norton & Company inc., 1937.
  • Webster, William H., and CSIS Global Organized Crime Project. Russian Organized Crime and Corruption : Putin's Challenge : Global Organized Crime Project. Washington, D.C.: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2000.
  • White, Stephen. Russia Goes Dry : Alcohol, State, and Society. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
  • White, Stephen, Alex Pravda, and Zvi Y. Gitelman, eds. Developments in Russian Politics 5. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001.