| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Genres: | History Books, Economics & Law, Nonfiction |
| Authors: | Francis Spufford |
| Pages: | 434 pages |
| ISBN13: | 9780571225231 |
| Language: | en |
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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.