Red Plenty (Paperback)
OR try AbeBooks who may have this title (opens in new window).
- Also available in...
- Paperback $14.68
Short Description for Red Plenty The Soviet Union was founded on a fairytale. It was built on 20th-century magic called 'the planned economy. This title discusses 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.
Full description- Publisher: Faber and Faber
- Published: 07 July 2011
- Format: Paperback 448 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Historical Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780571225248 ISBN 10: 0571225241
- Sales rank: 36,534
Other books
Full description for Red Plenty
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.
