The Red hotel : Moscow 1941, the Metropol Hotel, and the untold story of Stalin's propaganda war
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New York : Pegasus Books, 2023.
Physical Desc
450 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Nonfiction - Adult Books
940.54 PHI
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940.54 PHI
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Communism -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union -- History.
Hotel Metropol (Moscow, Russia) -- History -- 20th century.
Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953.
War correspondents -- Soviet Union -- History.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Journalists.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Press coverage.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Soviet Union -- Propaganda.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Soviet Union.
Hotel Metropol (Moscow, Russia) -- History -- 20th century.
Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953.
War correspondents -- Soviet Union -- History.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Journalists.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Press coverage.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Soviet Union -- Propaganda.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Soviet Union.
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Published
New York : Pegasus Books, 2023.
Format
Book
Language
English
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-433) and index.
Description
"In 1941, when German armies were marching towards Moscow, Lenin's body was moved from his tomb on Red Square and taken to Siberia. By 1945, a victorious Stalin had turned a poor country into a victorious superpower. Over the course of those four years, Stalin, at Churchill's insistence, accepted an Anglo-American press corps in Moscow to cover the Eastern Front. To turn these reporters into Kremlin mouthpieces, Stalin imposed the most draconian controls--unbending censorship, no visits to the battle front, and a ban on contact with ordinary citizens. The Red Hotel explores this gilded cage of the Metropol Hotel. They enjoyed lavish supplies of caviar and had their choice of young women to employ as translators and share their beds. On the surface, this regime served Stalin well: his plans to control Eastern Europe as a Sovietized "outer empire" were never reported and the most outrageous Soviet lies went unchallenged. But beneath the surface the Metropol was roiling with intrigue. While some of the translators turned journalists into robotic conveyors of Kremlin propaganda, others were secret dissidents who whispered to reporters the reality of Soviet life and were punished with sentences in the Gulag"--,Provided by publisher.
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