Voronezh, Russian Federation
During the World War I, the tsarist government demonstrated significant success in anti-alcohol policy. Revolutions and Civil War have brought them to nothing. In the 1920s, not only alcohol consumption, but also private distilling acquired significant proportions, including in the provinces of the Central Chernozem strip of Russia. The scope of moonshine brewing was reported from the Voronezh, Tambov, Kursk provinces. Based on the materials identified in the archives of the Voronezh region, the paper traces the causes, trends and policies of confrontation with this offense. The conclusion is formed about the absence of a unified methodology for the elimination of moonshine, the contradictory attitude to alcohol abuse on the part of the Soviet party workers themselves, the significant role of the police in restraining and gradually reducing the deviation under consideration.
NEP, Voronezh province, VKP(b), police, moonshining, alcoholism
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