«Where the farming is - there the bribery is»: to the history of bribes in Russia

Abstract

In the article the nature paying off bribery is analyzed. The author comes to a conclusion that the severity of the drinkable legislation running counter to fisk interests, the government to be reconciled with paying off arbitrariness, and compelled a tаx farmer to resort to bribes to expand to oneself a field of actions. The aspiration of the higher administration to finish the bureaucratic and commercial corruption generated by wine payoffs was one of the bases to introduction of a free turn of alcohol in Russia.