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Product Description 'You know just how serious a problem alcoholism has become for our country. Frankly speaking, it has taken on the proportions of a national disaster.' So spoke Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in 2009 as the government launched its 'anti-alcohol campaign'. This has subsequently been presented in simplistic terms as a top-down implementation of policy, imposed in the national interest and to preserve the nation's health in face of the ravages inflicted by widespread alcohol abuse. In the first English-language book on Russian alcohol policy in the post-Soviet period, Anna Bailey challenges this widely accepted narrative. Bailey shows how policy more commonly results from the competitive interactions of stakeholders with vested interests, with the state itself divided. About the Author Anna Bailey is project manager of the Global Encyclopaedia of Informality at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL, which brings together a wide range of scholars and policymakers to produce the first multimedia online resource exploring informal practices and structures from a global perspective. She completed her PhD in political science at UCL and has been a regular keynote speaker at the Russian State University for the Humanities' annual International Scientific and Practical Conference 'Alcohol in Russia' since its foundation in 2010