Red Plenty

Francis Spufford

About this book

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.

Subjects

  • communism
  • fiction
  • history
  • planned economies
  • politics and government
  • public policy
  • soviet union, history, 1953-1991
  • soviet union, politics and government, 1945-1991