Red Plenty

Resumen del libro

The 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. Red 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 out-glitter Manhattan, every Lada would be better engineered than a Porsche and sputniks would lead the way to the stars. And it's about the scientists who did their genuinely brilliant best to make the dream come true, to give the tyranny its happy ending.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;b Francis Spuffordx{0026}lt;/b (Cambridge, 1964) estudió Literatura Inglesa en Trinity Hall, Cambridge, y se licenció en 1985. Fue editor jefe de Chatto x{0026}amp; Windus y becario del Royal Literary Fund en la Universidad Anglia Ruskin de 2005 a 2007. Desde 2008 es profesor en el Goldsmiths College de Londres en el máster en Escritura Creativa y Autobiográfica. Durante más de veinte años ha sido un prestigioso y premiado ensayista, con obras como x{0026}lt;i I Maybe Sometime: Ice and the English Imagination x{0026}lt;/i (1996), que ganó el Premio al Escritor Joven del Año del Sunday Times, el Premio del Sindicato de Escritores al Mejor Libro de No Ficción y el Premio Somerset Maugham en 1997. También ha escrito x{0026}lt;i The Child That Books Built x{0026}lt;/i (2002), x{0026}lt;i Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin x{0026}lt;/i (2003), nominado al premio Aventis, x{0026}lt;i Abundancia roja: sueño y utopía en la URSS x{0026}lt;/i (2010), finalista del premio Orwell, e x{0026}lt;i Impenitente: una defensa emocional de la fe x{0026}lt;/i (2012). x{0026}lt;i Golden Hillx{0026}lt;/i , publicada en 2016, es su primera novela.