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.

List of contents

• 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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen V. Bittner, Stephen V. (Professor of History Bittner, Bittner Stephen V.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.02.2021
• EAN: 9780198784821
• ISBN: 978-0-19-878482-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 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