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Bizarre and quite brilliant.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times

Thrilling.' Michael Burleigh, Sunday Telegraph

Francis Spufford has one of the most original minds in contemporary literature.' Nick Hornby

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 sc

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 7 July 2011
      ISBN-13 9780571225248
      978-0571225248
      ISBN-10 0571225241
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Bizarre and quite brilliant.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times

      Thrilling.' Michael Burleigh, Sunday Telegraph

      Francis Spufford has one of the most original minds in contemporary literature.' Nick Hornby

      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 sc

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