To date, there have been only two expansive anti-alcohol campaigns in Russia, both of which took place during the Soviet Union: one under Vladimir Lenin and the other under Mikhail Gorbachev.

With the Revolution of 1905 brewing in St. Petersburg, Russia was forced to sue for peace. “The Japanese did not conquer,” wrote Vienna’s Neue freie Presse, “but alcohol triumphed, alcohol ...

Alcohol wasn’t forbidden in the Russian army in the 18th century. ... However, Russian Emperor Peter the Great never allowed his troops to get trapped in a drunken downward spiral.

On July 31, 1914, a tsar's decree banned the manufacture and sale of alcohol in Russia. Originally, the ban was due to hold during mobilization, as Russia was entering the First World War.

We can probably assume absolutist monarch Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Vladimir Lenin, the Bolshevik revolutionary who displaced him in 1917, didn’t see eye to eye. Coming from opposite ends ...

2003-09-05 04:00:00 PDT Sumino, Russia-- With a crooked half-smile, Alexander Yegorov acknowledges his defeat. In his 18 years as the manager of the Sumino collective dairy farm, Yegorov has tried ...

Tsar Nicholas II, Russia's last emperor, introduced prohibition in 1914 amid the outbreak of World War I, banning the sale of hard liquor in most establishments.

Russian lawmakers in the Vologda region north of Moscow have proposed restricting the sale of alcohol to a two-hour period on weekdays, as the local governor pointed to "horrific" mortality figures.

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