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Whites and reds : a history of wine in the lands of Tsar and Commissar / Stephen V. Bittner.
LIBRA TP559.R8 B58 2021
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bittner, Stephen V., 1970- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wine and wine making--Russia--History.
- Wine and wine making.
- History.
- Russia.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 255 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), map (colour). ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 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: Soviet Winemakers and the Stalinist Gift Economy
- 6. Taste: Soviet Wine and Western Connoisseurship
- 7. Quality: Wine and Alcoholism in the Age of Mature Socialism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0198784821
- 9780198784821
- OCLC:
- 1190854521
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