Rare Tolstoy Pamphlet on Drugs and Alcohol
Pourquoi les hommes usent-ils de stupéfiants? [Why do people stupefy themselves?]
First Edition. The first separate edition, in French translation by Michel Peter, of Tolstoy's polemical inquiry into why people use alcohol and drugs. The essay begins: "What is this demand for stupefying things—vodka, wine, beer, hashish, opium, tobacco, and others less universally used; ether, morphine, mukhumor? Why did it begin.....
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