title: The Issues of Alcohol Production and Abuse in Russia in Mikhail Katkov’s Publications
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metadata.value: Stepanov, Valerii L.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-02-07T13:44:01Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-02-07T13:44:01Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-12
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metadata.value: Stepanov V. L. The Issues of Alcohol Production and Abuse in Russia in Mikhail Katkov’s Publications. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2022, vol. 67, issue 4, рp. 1101–1117. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2022.405 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2022.405
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/39007
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article is devoted to the study of the evolution of views on the issues of alcohol production
  and abuse by the largest ideologue of Russian conservatism M. N. Katkov — editor-publisher
  of the newspaper “Moskovskie Vedomosti” and the magazine “Russkii Vestnik”. It analyses the
  speeches of the famous publicist and his associates on the pages of these publications aimed at
  alterations in the excise system, in force since 1863, in order to limit the excessive consumption
  of strong alcoholic beverages and overcome its severe social consequences. The reasons
  that prompted the famous publicist in the early 1880s to launch a campaign for the introduction
  of a wine monopoly are explained: the decline of the popularity of the liberal economic
  doctrine in the West as a result of the world economic crisis of 1873–1878; the rise of the
  movement in European countries for the transfer of the drinking trade to the treasury under
  the influence of stagnation in agriculture; the expansion of state intervention in economic life
  in Russia. The article points out the arguments given by Katkov in favor of a monopoly, which,
  in his opinion, had to allow regulating the distillery industry, ending rampant drunkenness,
  eradicating drunkenness and corruption in the beverage business. It is particularly noted that
  Katkov considered this reform one of the main points of his program for creating a “national”
  economy in Russia, protected from the West by high customs barriers and assuming multilateral
  participation of the state in the development of the national economy, and these attitudes
  largely corresponded to the protectionist course of the government in the reign of the penultimate
  Russian tsar, Alexander III.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation grant No. 22-28-01267 “Commercial
  capital or the state one? Public debate about the path of Russia’s economic development (second half of the
  1870s to first half of the 1890s)”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 67; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: drinking issue
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: excise system
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: wine monopoly
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: public thought
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: journalism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Issues of Alcohol Production and Abuse in Russia in Mikhail Katkov’s Publications
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metadata.value: Article
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