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Title: A History of Vodka (Interverso) by William Pokhlebkin, Renfrey Clarke, V. V. Pokhlebkin ISBN: 0-86091-359-7 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: December, 1992 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: amazing historical treatise
Comment: A very comprehensive survey of Russia's most popular drink. Reads like a fine novel, intelligent and charming. Every detail is put into historical perspective. Although Pokhlebkin did not drink himself, he managed to pur just the right emphasis on the importance of the drink in the russian culture viewed through the prism of historical events. Highly recommended to all.

Rating: 2
Summary: A poor, propagandistic book on the development of vodka.
Comment: This is a book that purports to tell the history of vodka. It was originally undertaken to prove that 'vodka' was invented first in Russia in an attempt to fight off attempts by Poles to usurp the name 'vodka' in international trade.

Though there is undoubtedly much research that went into this work, the author does his readers a great disservice by his arrogance and cultural prejudices. Though his facts seem solid, his interpretation tends to be circular and often one conclusion is built on a whole chain of very shaky intermediate claims. His main conclusion, that vodka was invented not only soley by Russians, but in Moscow as well, is reached, by among other devices, carefully defining the product first.

Nonetheless, the work is of some interest, but it really does need to be taken with more than a grain of salt. It will have to do until a more comprehensive and fair work is produced in the English language.