Dr. Yulia Uryadova has published an article in The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Her article, “Prostitution, Alcoholism, and Drugs: Social disorder in imperial Ferghana, examines the rise of prostitution and the spread of alcoholism and drug use in the heartland of Central Asia, the Ferghana Valley, from 1905 to 1914.  Russian fears of possible revolt by the Muslim population intensified as social problems manifested in the early twentieth century. These issues were not just threats to social stability. Because Muslims considered these alien importations attributable to a corrupt Russian culture and empire, the appearance of social problems contributed to political problems. While Russian authorities presented revolt as the outcome of fanaticism, Muslim resistance to Russian autocracy was articulated in resistance to drugs, alcoholism, and prostitution in the late imperial era. Thus, in the already restive Ferghana Valley, social issues that indicated rising tensions also worked to articulate Muslim discontent, discredited the moral authority of the Russian Empire, and brought into question the ability of Russian authorities to bring order in the area.