| Description |
xiii, 434 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
First published 2010. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-434). |
| Contents |
The prodigy, 1938 -- Mr. Chairman, 1959 -- Little plastic beakers, 1959 -- White dust, 1953 -- Shadow prices, 1960 -- From the photograph, 1961 -- Stormy applause, 1961 -- Midsummer night, 1962 -- The price of meat, 1962 -- The method of balances, 1963 -- Prisoner's dilemma, 1963 -- Trading down, 1964 -- Ladies, cover your ears!, 1965 -- Psychoprophylaxis, 1966 -- The unified system, 1970 -- Police in the forest, 1968 -- The pensioner, 1968. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
Soviet Union -- History -- 1953-1985 -- Fiction.
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Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1953-1985 -- Fiction.
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| ISBN |
9781555976040 paperback $16.00 |
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1555976042 paperback $16.00 |
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