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Starks carefully reviews advertisements, archival documents, maps, and individual narratives to generate an elegant and thorough account of the social life of smoking in prerevolutionary Russia. * Journal of the History of Medicine * In the end, Starks has put together a masterful monograph that weaves together the political, economic, social, and cultural history of smoking in Russia-no small feat. The prose is as vivid and engaging as the stunning, full-color, tsarist-era artwork. -- Mark Lawrence Schrad, Villanova University * MUSE, bloomberg news * What a curious, ambitious book! When I think of titles that will get readers hooked on Russia, this is what I envision. Smoking Under the Tsars is sprawling, drawing cultural anthropology, history, pubpol, and medicine (plus a little journalism) under the wing of RAS. * Russia Reviewed * Should be on all graduate students' reading lists and, given their accessible and jargon-free writing styles, could easily be integrated in the undergraduate curriculum. * Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History * Starks succeeds in cohesively examining an unconventional topic that will interest a wide audience interested in histories of consumer culture, the senses, women, medicine, and the public sphere before 1917. * Choice * An interesting, easy to read, and pleasant to contemplate book about how smoking developed in Russia. * Regnum (translated from the Russian) * The history of tobacco smoking and addiction described in Tricia Starks's lively new book Smoking Under the Tsars underscores how deeply ingrained the habit is in Russian history and culture and the difficulty the contemporary Russian state faces in trying to persuade more people to quit.... Fascinating. * American Journal of Public Health * Starks is successful in inviting the reader to reconsider tobacco consumption as a form of national project during the late imperial period. Of interest to scholars of public health, gender, and marketing as well as historians, it is well worthy of a wide readership and an important addition to our understanding of the late imperial period. * The Russian Review * [Smoking under the Tsars] offers readers a thick anthropological account of complex socialities created and maintained with a cigarette puff. * Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences * Tricia Starks' book is well-written and lavishly illustrated and is an important contribution to the understanding of the manufacture, production, and role that tobacco had in late imperial and in the Revolutionary Russia. Particularly noteworthy is the level of detail that the author has provided on all these topics. This book is highly recommended for anyone interested in any aspect of smoking or the tobacco industry in Russia during the periods discussed. * International Journal of Russian Studies *

Smoking Under the Tsars is a major contribution to our understanding of the place of tobacco and smoking in pre-revolutionary Russia. Tricia Starks sets a high bar for future scholars of tobacco use in Russia. -- Kate Transchel, Professor of History, California State University, Chico, and author of<I> Under the Influence: Working-class Drinking, Temperance, and Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1895-1932</I> Smoking Under the Tsars is a major contribution to our understanding of the place of tobacco and smoking in pre-revolutionary Russia. Tricia Starks sets a high bar for future scholars of tobacco use in Russia. -- Kate Transchel, Professor of History, California State University, Chico, and author of <I>Under the Influence: Working-class Drinking, Temperance, and Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1895-1932</I>

Tricia Starks delves into the sensory history of smoking in Russia through vivid imagery and literature analysis. She uncovers the origin story of the smoking culture that is such a striking part of contemporary Russian society. -- Alison K. Smith, Professor of History, University of Toronto, and author of <I>Recipes for Russia: Food and Nationhood under the Tsars</I> Smoking Under the Tsars is a major contribution to our understanding of the place of tobacco and smoking in pre-revolutionary Russia. Tricia Starks sets a high bar for future scholars of tobacco use in Russia. -- Kate Transchel, Professor of History, California State University, Chico, and author of <I>Under the Influence: Working-class Drinking, Temperance, and Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1895-1932</I> Smoking Under the Tsars is a major contribution to our understanding of the place of tobacco and smoking in pre-revolutionary Russia. Tricia Starks sets a high bar for future scholars of tobacco use in Russia. -- Kate Transchel, Professor of History, California State University, Chico, and author of<I> Under the Influence: Working-class Drinking, Temperance, and Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1895-1932</I>

Smoking Under the Tsars is a major contribution to our understanding of the place of tobacco and smoking in pre-revolutionary Russia. Tricia Starks sets a high bar for future scholars of tobacco use in Russia. --Kate Transchel, Professor of History, California State University, Chico, and author of Under the Influence: Working-class Drinking, Temperance, and Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1895-1932 Tricia Starks delves into the sensory history of smoking in Russia through vivid imagery and literature analysis. She uncovers the origin story of the smoking culture that is such a striking part of contemporary Russian society. --Alison K. Smith, Professor of History, University of Toronto, and author of Recipes for Russia: Food and Nationhood under the Tsars

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Tricia Starks is Associate Professor of History at the University of Arkansas. She is author of The Body Soviet, and coeditor of Tobacco in Russian History and Culture and Russian History through the Senses.

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