About the book: year / The spread of temperance societies, the boycott by peasants, the urban lower classes of the tax-farm system and more active forms of struggle, Dobrolyubov rightly regarded as a broad social people's movement. According to the historian, Dobrolyubov “collected a lot of material about the temperance movement, having studied everything that was then published on this issue in newspapers and magazines. Masterfully bypassing censorship, Dobrolyubov exposed the machinations of tax farmers and painted a vivid picture of the bleak life of a peasant…»