{"product_id":"9781555970413","title":"Red Plenty","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Spufford 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\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175624720624,"sku":"9781555970413","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555970413_p0.jpg?v=1763753515","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555970413","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}