Documents the surprising role pharmaceutical science and technology has played in Russias search for national identity over a century of political turbulence.Over the last one hundred years the Russian pharmaceutical industry has undergone multiple dramatic transformations which have taken place alongside tectonic political shifts in society associated with the rise and fall of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a postSoviet order. Pharmapolitics in Russia argues that different versions of the Russian pharmaceutical industry took shape in a coproductive process equally involving political ideologies and agendas and technoscientific developments and constraints. Drawing on interviews documents literature and media sources Olga Zvonareva examines critical points in the history of the pharmaceutical industry in Russia.