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Further, drink remained a visible manifestation of worker self-identity: rank-and-file workers denied "non-drinkers," i.e., women, children, and worker intellectuals, full status as workers. Working-class women themselves operated in normal times within a framework that assumed the persistence of a male-dominated working community: scattered opportunities for female celebration did not pose a real threat to masculine control of working-class life. Similarly, though individual women endeavored to protect their own families' economic health from any potentially deleterious effects of male alcohol consumption, only in extraordinary times did women engage in collective anti-alcohol efforts.","Two distinct cultural milieus were distinguishable within the Russian working class: the "drunken" world of the rank-and-file, where alcohol was an essential element of male sociability; and the "sober" world of the worker intellectual, which emphasized the "sensible" use of resources. 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