- Politics and government, History, Soviet union, history, 1953-1991, Soviet union, politics and government, 1945-1991
The Soviet Union was built on 20th-century magic called 'the planned economy', which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the late 1950s, the magic seemed to be working. This book is about that moment in history, and how it came, and how it went away.
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- Author
- Francis Spufford
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 434
- Publisher
- Turner, Graywolf Press, Rowohlt Taschenbuch
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9788475069494
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