Awards

• Short-listed for Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2023 (United States)
• Winner of Southern Conference on Slavic Studies Book Award (formerly Richard Stites Award) 2024 (United States)

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Author:   Tricia Starks
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
Imprint:   Northern Illinois University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.907kg
ISBN:  

9781501765483

ISBN 10:   1501765485
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   15 November 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION: The Revolutionary Soviet Smoker 1. ATTACKED: Commissar Semashko and Tobacco Prohibition 2. RESURRECTED: Nationalized Factories and Revitalized Industry 3. SOLD: Revolutionary Advertising and Communist Consumption 4. TREATED: Individual Will and Collective Therapy 5. UNFULFILLED: Commissar Mikoian and Stalinized Production 6. MOBILIZED: Frontline Provision and Factory Evacuations 7. RECOVERED: Women's Kingdoms and Manly Habits 8. PARTNERED: Space Cigarettes and Soviet Marlboros 9. PRESSURED: Demographic Crisis and Popular Discontent 10. OVERWHELMED: The Post-Soviet Smoker

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Enlightening and thought-provoking. * Toward Freedom *

Enlightening and thought-provoking. * Toward Freedom * Cigarettes and Soviets makes two important and original contributions to the existing public health literature: it recounts an episode of the history of tobacco different from the much more studied one in the West, and it is the liveliest history I know of the evolution of public health in the USSR. The illustrations are esthetically compelling, and Starks excels in describing their content, hidden meaning, and even taste and feel for the smoker. * American Journal of Public Health *

Author Information

Tricia Starks is Director of the Humanities Center and Professor of History at the University of Arkansas. She is the author of Body Soviet and Smoking under the Tsars. Follow her on X @tricia_starks.

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