Red Plenty New Book, Francis Spufford, Paperback

Faber & Faber

\u2018Bizarre and quite brilliant.\u2019 Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times\n\u2018Thrilling.\u2019 Michael Burleigh, Sunday Telegraph\n\u2018Francis Spufford has one of the most original minds in contemporary literature.\u2019 Nick Hornby\nThe 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.\nRed 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\n\nRed Plenty\n\u2018Bizarre and quite brilliant.\u2019 Dominic Sandbrook, host of THE REST IS HISTORY\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is avail;