Whites and Reds - A History of Wine in the Lands of Tsar and Commissar

Whites and Reds illuminates the ideas, controversies, political alliances, technologies, business practices, international networks, growers, vintners, connoisseurs, and consumers who shaped the history of wine in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union over more than two centuries.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Introduction: Identity: Wine and Civilization


• 1: Terroir: The Landscapes of Winemaking


• 2: Science: The Great Wine Blight in Late-Tsarist Bessarabia


• 3: Authenticity: Wine and the Ambivalence of Modernity


• 4: Commerce: Selling Wine in the Age of Revolution


• 5: Hospitality: Winemakers and the Stalinist Gift Economy


• 6: Taste: Soviet Wine and Western Connoisseurship


• 7: Quality: Wine and Alcoholism in the Age of Mature Socialism


• Conclusion: Wine after Socialism

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Stephen V. Bittner is Professor of History at Sonoma State University. He is the author of The Many Lives of Khrushchev's Thaw: Experience and Memory in Moscow's Arbat and the editor of Dmitrii Shepilov's memoir, The Kremlin's Scholar: A Memoir of Soviet Politics under Stalin and Khrushchev.

Zusammenfassung

Whites and Reds illuminates the ideas, controversies, political alliances, technologies, business practices, international networks, growers, vintners, connoisseurs, and consumers who shaped the history of wine in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union over more than two centuries.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Stephen V. Bittner, Stephen V. (Professor of History Bittner, Bittner Stephen V.
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 11.02.2021
• EAN: 9780198784821
• ISBN: 978-0-19-878482-1
• Seiten: 264
• Themen: Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Russia, European History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, HISTORY / Modern / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Agribusiness, COOKING / Beverages / Alcoholic / Wine, wines, Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and rural economics