How long does it take to read Red Plenty?
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford takes about 8 hours 5 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 5 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2010. 441 pages, about 121,275 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 29 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 5 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 3 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Soviet Union was built on 20th-century magic called 'the planned economy', which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the late 1950s, the magic seemed to be working. This book is about that moment in history, and how it came, and how it went away.
Subjects: Politics and government, History, Fiction, Communism, planned economies, public policy
