

"Spufford cunningly maps out a literary genre of his own . . . Freewheeling and fabulous." --The Times (London)

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Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale. It was built on the twentieth-century magic called the planned economy, which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little...