Red Plenty
17 hrs. 38 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Francis Spufford
Author
Francis Spufford
Narrator
Mikhail Roslyakov
Narrator
Mikhail Roslyakov
Description
Francis Spufford, with a hint of irony, calls his book “The Country of Plenty” a fairy tale. A fairy tale about what was about to become reality. This is a story about the Soviet Union as it was in the late fifties and early sixties under Khrushchev. At that time, the Soviet people—armed with a planned economy—marched toward abundance and prosperity and, in a couple of decades, were supposed to arrive at communism, as promised by the country’s leaders.
The American exhibition in Sokolniki, the creation of the academic city in Novosibirsk, Khrushchev’s trip to the United States, the shooting of a demonstration in Novocherkassk—all these events are described with astonishing accuracy, but this is not a dry account. It’s a living narrative in which both real and fictional characters appear—party figures and enthusiastic Komsomol members, leading scientists and ordinary workers.
The American exhibition in Sokolniki, the creation of the academic city in Novosibirsk, Khrushchev’s trip to the United States, the shooting of a demonstration in Novocherkassk—all these events are described with astonishing accuracy, but this is not a dry account. It’s a living narrative in which both real and fictional characters appear—party figures and enthusiastic Komsomol members, leading scientists and ordinary workers.
00:28
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02:24
00_01_Soderzhanie
01:13
00_02_Annotatsiya
10:34
00_03_Deystvuyuschie litsa — v poryadke poyavleniya
01:34
00_04_Primechanie o deystvuyuschih litsah
10:03
01_00_Chast pervaya
29:04
01_01_Vunderkind. 1938 god
22:08
01_02-01_Predsovmin. 1959 god
21:37
01_02-02_Predsovmin. 1959 god
22:01
01_02-03_Predsovmin. 1959 god
26:36
01_03_01_Plastmassovye stakanchiki. 1959 god
26:25
01_03_02_Plastmassovye stakanchiki. 1959 god
25:23
01_04_01_Belaya pyl. 1953 god
26:04
01_04_02_Belaya pyl. 1953 god
34:04
02_00_Chast vtoraya
39:55
02_01_Tenevye tseny, 1960 god
35:00
02_02_Ot fotografii. 1961 god
25:51
02_03_01_Burnye aplodismenty. 1961 god
26:03
02_03_02_Burnye aplodismenty. 1961 god
27:29
03_00_Chast tretya
25:36
03_01_01_Letnyaya noch. 1962 god
25:50
03_01_02_Letnyaya noch. 1962 god
25:40
03_01_03_Letnyaya noch. 1962 god
25:09
03_01_04_Letnyaya noch. 1962 god
21:08
03_02_01_Tseny na myaso. 1962 god
21:36
03_02_02_Tseny na myaso. 1962 god
16:47
04_00_Chast chetvertaya
36:16
04_01_Mezhotraslevoy balans. 1963 god
31:05
04_02_Dilemma zaklyuchennogo. 1963 god
24:21
04_03_01_Uslugi. 1964 god
23:32
04_03_02_Uslugi. 1964 god
23:25
04_03_03_Uslugi. 1964 god
24:11
04_03_04_Uslugi. 1964 god
22:43
05_00_Chast pyataya
23:01
05_01_Na ponizhenie. 1964 god
21:06
05_02_01_Kiseynym baryshnyam tut ne mesto. 1965 god
21:02
05_02_02_Kiseynym baryshnyam tut ne mesto. 1965 god
21:24
05_02_03_Kiseynym baryshnyam tut ne mesto. 1965 god
19:59
05_03_01_Psihologicheskaya podgotovka. 1966 god
21:40
05_03_02_Psihologicheskaya podgotovka. 1966 god
19:01
05_03_03_Psihologicheskaya podgotovka. 1966 god
26:32
06_00_Chast shestaya
21:57
06_01_01_Edinaya sistema. 1970 god
21:45
06_01_02_Edinaya sistema. 1970 god
27:10
06_02_01_Militsiya v lesu. 1968 god
27:06
06_02_02_Militsiya v lesu. 1968 god
17:52
06_03_Pensioner. 1968 god
07:34
07_Posleslovie
