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Red Plenty

Francis Spufford

20101 pagesabout 5–10 minutes
2010
first published
  • 2010Faber & Faber, Limited · ENGISBN 9780571269471
  • 2010Faber and Faber · 434 pages · ENGISBN 9780571225231
  • 2012Graywolf Press · ENGISBN 9781555970413
  • 2012Graywolf Press · 434 pages · ENGISBN 9781555976040
  • 2012Rowohlt TaschenbuchISBN 9783499257513
  • 2011Faber & Faber · 448 pages · ENGISBN 9780571225248
  • 2021Tantor and Blackstone Publishing · 1 pagesISBN 9781665245913

The Soviet Union was built on 20th-century magic called 'the planned economy', which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the late 1950s, the magic seemed to be working. This book is about that moment in history, and how it came, and how it went away.

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