American tastes had also fully shifted toward light, easy-drinking spirits whose ad campaigns promised them versatility, ...

“Now,” said Pablo Picasso, announcing his conversion to Communism ... they yearned to paint gutted guitars, vodka bottles and pink, reclining nudes. Pravda’s loud bark wound up with ...

A wall calendar showed August 1988, and the kitchen cupboard and drawers contained plastic crockery and aluminium cutlery along with communist ... and a bottle of "Kristall" vodka.

Bottles of vodka are seen on the shelves ... Advertisers invoked images of Imperial Russia rather than Soviet communism, hyping vodka's sophistication and European heritage. High gloss ads for ...

Bottles of vodka are seen on the shelves ... Advertisers invoked images of Imperial Russia rather than Soviet communism, hyping vodka's sophistication and European heritage. High gloss ads for ...