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There is a fascinating alternate-history book about this: https://www.amazon.com/Red-Plenty-Francis-Spufford/dp/1555976042 https://www.amazon.com/Red-Plenty-Fra

• pinewurst 6y ago
  I wouldn't call this (excellent!) book "alternative-history" at all. It's more like novelized history - the portraits of what it actually took to get things done in the USSR are especially notable.
  • dmd 6y ago
    Yes, you're absolutely right.