{"product_id":"red-plenty-9781555976040","title":"Red Plenty","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSpufford cunningly maps out a literary genre of his own . . . Freewheeling and fabulous. \u003ci\u003e--The Times \u003c\/i\u003e(London)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStrange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale. It was built on the twentieth-century magic called the planned economy, which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the 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. \u003ci\u003eRed Plenty \u003c\/i\u003eis about that moment in history, and how it came, and how it went away; about the brief era when, under the rash leadership of Khrushchev, the Soviet Union looked forward to a future of rich communists and envious capitalists, when Moscow would out-glitter Manhattan and every Lada would be better engineered than a Porsche. It's about the scientists who did their genuinely brilliant best to make the dream come true, to give the tyranny its happy ending. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRed Plenty \u003c\/i\u003eis history, it's fiction, it's as ambitious as \u003ci\u003eSputnik\u003c\/i\u003e, as uncompromising as an Aeroflot flight attendant, and as different from what you were expecting as a glass of Soviet champagne.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/14\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781555976040\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 434\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.22h x 5.55w x 1.23d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2011 pg. 34\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/19\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2012 pg. 99\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/24\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker (The)\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/27\/2012 pg. 85\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/29\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/04\/2012 pg. 13\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/11\/2012 pg. 26\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Best Nonfiction\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2012 pg. 38\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Francis Spufford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36659643908252,"sku":"9781555976040","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_0f8d6c46-efbe-4e8f-b710-68e5e2d0c90e.jpg?v=1603895193","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/red-plenty-9781555976040","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}