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Red Plenty
- De: Francis Spufford
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 13 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 166
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 138
Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale. It was built on the 20th-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. Red Plenty is about that moment in history, and how it came, and how it went away. Red Plenty is history, it's fiction, it's as ambitious as Sputnik, and as uncompromising as an Aeroflot flight attendant.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Simple review
- De Jay J Peters en 06-24-18
- Red Plenty
- De: Francis Spufford
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
Beautifully written, perfectly read
Revisado: 05-22-22
I’d avoided this book, despite hearing glowing reviews of it, for years because I assumed it was some dense work of theory based on the subject matter. I could not have been more wrong. This is a fantastic collection of interwoven stories give a clear-eyed postmortem to the Soviet project in which it tried to compete with capitalism on capitalism’s terms and failed. It shows the successes and failures of the Soviet system not through GDP growth figures or analysis of the productive output of the Soviet Union, but through the stories of people who lived in the system and whose lives were impacted by these successes and failures everyday.
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