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Red Plenty by Francis Spufford (Paperback, 2011)
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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherFaber & Faber
ISBN-139780571225248
eBay Product ID (ePID)179534612
Product Key Features
Number of Pages448 Pages
Publication NameRed Plenty
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2011
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science
AuthorFrancis Spufford
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height200 mm
Item Weight350 g
Item Width128 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorFrancis Spufford
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- 08 Jun, 2016
Industrial planning, Soviet style
Very original novelated story about the Soviet attemp to set up a central planned economic system during the late fifties. Nevertheless a bit too technical for readers not acquainted to industrial planning and recent Soviet history.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
