L'ultima favola russa
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Tradotto da: Carlo Prosperi
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È con verve straordinaria, e un punto di vista originalissimo, che Francis Spufford racconta la storia dell’Unione Sovietica tra gli anni Cinquanta e Sessanta. Una serie di personaggi veri e inventati, giovani scienziati brillanti, strateghi di partito, normalissime famiglie, coppie di innamorati, si muovono sullo sfondo di vicende storiche ben documentate per darci il quadro generale di un periodo intricato, spesso falsato dalla propaganda politica: la corsa dell’«economia pianificata» in gara con quella americana per il primato di ricchezza e progresso.
L’autore racconta la storia di un’idea con un tono leggero, spesso ironico: il dramma di un popolo che crede nelle favole prende forma senza bisogno di enfasi, di scene tragiche. Spufford sa intrattenere il lettore senza tregua. Pura magia.
- ISBN: 8833940454
- Casa Editrice: Bollati Boringhieri
- Pagine: 496
- Data di uscita: 03-03-2022
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Red Plenty is probably one of the finest, and saddest, books I have ever read. It's hard to tell what it is. The best description I've heard is that it's science fiction-- only the science is economics, and the fiction is entirely based on real history. Red Plenty is about the rise and fall of the S Leggi tutto
This is not a novel. It has too much to explain, to be one of those. But it is not a history either, for it does its explaining in the form of a story; only the story is the story of an idea, first of all, and only afterwards, glimpsed through the chinks of the idea’s fate, the story of the people i Leggi tutto
A fascinating mix of history and fiction focusing on the Soviet Union from the late 1950s to 1970 and its attempt to engineer the economy into prosperity and to outpace the Capitalist economies of the West. It is the story of the collapse of the Soviet dream. A really interesting read, and one that
This is a story of how a dream is born and how it dies. The book is written as a novel, but it is definitely nonfiction, or maybe better, it is a dramatization. Yes, this is a dramatization of a usually dry and academic subject of planed economy and creating true Communism in the 50s and 60s. It star Leggi tutto
I loved Golden Hill , which is also by Francis Spufford , and so came to Red Plenty: Inside the Fifties' Soviet Dream with high expectations. It's set in Soviet Russia, during the Khrushchev era, primarily the late 1950s through to the early 1970s, and comprises a series of short stories which highligh Leggi tutto
Moved to gwern.net .
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