Red Plenty

By Francis Spufford

Subjects: Politics and government, Soviet union, politics and government, 1945-1991, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Communism, History, Soviet union, history, 1953-1991

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.