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The Many Lives of Khrushchev's Thaw

Experience and Memory in Moscow's Arbat

By: Stephen V. Bittner

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The Many Lives of Khrushchev's Thaw

Experience and Memory in Moscow's Arbat

By: Stephen V. Bittner

Bittner explores how the neighborhood changed during the period of ideological relaxation under Khrushchev that came to be known as the thaw.

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Cornell University Press

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0801446066

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9780801446061

Whites and Reds

A History of Wine in the Lands of Tsar and Commissar

By: Stephen V. Bittner

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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 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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Oxford University Press

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0191087688

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9780191087684

The Shadow of War

Russia and the USSR, 1941 to the present

By: Stephen Lovell

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The Shadow of War

Russia and the USSR, 1941 to the present

By: Stephen Lovell

Taking the achievements, ambiguities, and legacies of World War II as a point of departure, The Shadow of War: The Soviet Union and Russia, 1941 to the Present offers a fresh new approach to modern Soviet and Russian history. Presents one of the only histories of the Soviet Union and Russia that begins with World War II and goes beyond the Soviet collapse through to the early twenty-first century Innovative thematic arrangement and approach allows for insights that are missed in chronological histories Draws on a wide range of sources and the very latest research on post-Soviet history, a rapidly developing field Supported by further reading, bibliography, maps and illustrations.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444351591

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9781444351590

The Many Lives of Khrushchev's Thaw

Experience and Memory in Moscow's Arbat

By: Stephen V. Bittner

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The Many Lives of Khrushchev's Thaw

Experience and Memory in Moscow's Arbat

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Bittner explores how the neighborhood changed during the period of ideological relaxation under Khrushchev that came to be known as the thaw.

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Cornell University Press

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Whites and Reds

A History of Wine in the Lands of Tsar and Commissar

By: Stephen V. Bittner

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A History of Wine in the Lands of Tsar and Commissar

By: Stephen V. Bittner

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.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198784821

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Book's by Stephen V. Bittner

The Many Lives of Khrushchev's Thaw

The Many Lives of Khrushchev's Thaw

Whites and Reds

Whites and Reds

The Shadow of War

The Shadow of War

The Many Lives of Khrushchev's Thaw

The Many Lives of Khrushchev's Thaw

Whites and Reds

Whites and Reds

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