Not sure if this has been shared before but Little Atoms have reposted their interview from 2011 with the author of Red Plenty (reviewed in Socialist Standard)
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First broadcast on 14th January 2011 Hailed as one of the most original non-fiction books in recent years, Francis Spufford's Red Plenty tells the story of the men and women who strived to deliver technological and economic Utopia for the Soviet Union in the Kruschev era
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