Red plenty
By: Francis Spufford
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Minneapolis, Minn
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9781555976040
Copyright date: 2010
Subjects: Politics and government; Fiction; History
First sentence: The tram was coming, squealing metal against metal, throwing blue-white sparks into the winter dark.
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.
Notes: First published 2010.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 421-434).