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

by Stephen V. Bittner

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198784821
• ISBN13: 9780198784821
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.4"