I recommend the book "Red Plenty" by Francis Spufford: https://amazon.com/o/asin/B0074HCLPE https://amazon.com/o/asin/B0074HCLPE It's a novel set as a series

I recommend the book "Red Plenty" by Francis Spufford: https://amazon.com/o/asin/B0074HCLPE https://amazon.com/o/asin/B0074HCLPE It's a novel set as a series of historical vignettes. While it is semi-fictional, it's been widely praised for capturing the initial optimism and the growing absurdity behind the Soviet economy, the people trying to control it and its effects on the citizens in general. It does describe in part the attempt to computerize the economy and how the system was gamed, etc.