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The history of wine in the land of tsars and commissars

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The development of Russian viticulture and winemaking in the modern era was an important symbolic indicator of Russia's integration into European culture. Emerging in the early 17th century and later supported by Peter the Great, the wine industry rapidly gained momentum in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, leveraging the economies and cultures of Georgia, Crimea, and Moldova. Although the 1917 Revolution devastated many vineyards and left the empire's wineries in ruins, it did not change the political and cultural significance of wine: champagne became a symbol of the "good life" under socialism, and the Soviet Union became a winemaking superpower, second only to Spain, Italy, and France in production volume. The author focuses on a wide range of issues related to the development of the wine industry: debates over the nature of "authentic" wine, the activities of key figures (from Alexander Kovalevsky to Prince Lev Golitsyn), the paradoxes of the early Soviet economy, the repression of Crimean winemakers, and attempts to improve the quality of Soviet products in the 1970s and 1980s. The author traces in detail how winegrowers, winemakers, agricultural scientists, government administrators, and foreign experts shaped the wine culture of the Russian Empire and the USSR over more than two centuries. Stephen Bittner is a professor of history at Sonoma State University in California.
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