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  Red Plenty (Hardback) By (author) Francis Spufford

  

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  Short Description for Red PlentyThe 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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  • Publisher: Faber and Faber
  • Published: 19 August 2010
  • Format: Hardback 448 pages
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  • Categories: European History | Postwar 20th Century History, From C 1945 To C 2000
  • ISBN 13: 9780571225231 ISBN 10: 0571225233
  • Sales rank: 9,120

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• The Soviet Union was founded on a fairytale. It was built on 20th-century magic called 'the planned economy', which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the penny-pinching lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the heady years of the late 1950s, the magic seemed to be working. "Red Plenty" is about that moment in history, and how it came, and how it went away; about the brief era when, under the rash leadership of Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Union looked forward to a future of rich communists and envious capitalists, when Moscow would out-glitter Manhattan, every Lada would be better engineered than a Porsche and sputniks would lead the way to the stars. And it's about the scientists who did their genuinely brilliant best to make the dream come true, to give the tyranny its happy ending.