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Whites and Reds - A History of Wine in the Lands of Tsar and Commissar (Hardcover)
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Whites and Reds - A History of Wine in the Lands of Tsar and Commissar (Hardcover)
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Whites and Reds: A History of Wine in the Lands of Tsar and
Commissar tells the story of Russia's encounter with viniculture
and winemaking. Rooted in the early-seventeenth century, embraced
by Peter the Great, and then magnified many times over by the
annexation of the indigenous wine economies and cultures of
Georgia, Crimea, and Moldova in the late-eighteenth and
early-nineteenth centuries, viniculture and winemaking became an
important indicator of Russia's place at the European table. While
the Russian Revolution in 1917 left many of the empire's vineyards
and wineries in ruins, it did not alter the political and cultural
meanings attached to wine. Stalin himself embraced champagne as
part of the good life of socialism, and the Soviet Union became a
winemaking superpower in its own right, trailing only Spain, Italy,
and France in the volume of its production. Whites and Reds
illuminates the ideas, controversies, political alliances,
technologies, business practices, international networks, and, of
course, the growers, vintners, connoisseurs, and consumers who
shaped the history of wine in the Russian Empire and the Soviet
Union over more than two centuries. Because wine was domesticated
by virtue of imperialism, its history reveals many of the
instabilities and peculiarities of the Russian and Soviet empires.
Over two centuries, the production and consumption patterns of
peripheral territories near the Black Sea and in the Caucasus
became a hallmark of Russian and Soviet civilizational identity and
cultural refinement. Wine in Russia was always more than something
to drink.
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