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Red Plenty is a 2010 book by Francis Spufford Soviet economy of the 1950s and 1960s. A mix of history and fiction, the book approaches this topic through the viewpoints of more than a dozen characters (some based on real people), interspersed with essays (and ending with 53 pages of endnotes).[1] Most of the characters are involved in efforts to make the Soviet economy function better.[2]
Selected characters
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Galina, a student and Komsomol member
- Zoya Vaynshteyn, a biologist
- Vasily Nemchinov, an economist
- Sergey Lebedev, a computer scientist
- Sasha Galich, a writer
- Maksim Maksimovich Mokhov, a Gosplan bureaucrat
- Chekuskin, a black market middleman