Cover -- Whites and Reds: A History of Wine in the Lands of Tsar and Commissar -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Introduction Identity: Wine and Civilization -- 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 -- Conclusion Rebirth: Wine after Socialism -- Acknowledgements -- Archives and Abbreviations -- Index.