Red Plenty

Francis Spufford

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Publisher: FABER & FABER

Publication Date : 19/08/2010

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

Examines the Soviet Union of the 1950s, when the communist ideal of the planned economy seemed to be working; and how it all went wrong. It's also about the scientists who did their brilliant best to make the communist dream come true, and give tyranny its happy ending.

Publisher's description:

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.

ISBN: 9780571225231