By the end of the 1920s, however, the Party was in a position to enforce ideological conformity…the new technological intellectuals were willing to be told, were willing to believe, that the task of speaking truth to power was now redundant, because truth was in power.
From Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
Red Plenty tells of the failure of economic development planning in the post-Stalin Soviet Union. The finest book on the twenty years after Stalin's death, described in the Sunday Times (UK) as "so weird and yet so wonderful".
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