The Red hotel : Moscow 1941, the Metropol Hotel, and the untold story of Stalin's propaganda war / Alan Philps.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-433) and index.

June 1941 : The accidental war correspondent -- July-September 1941 : Suitable war work -- August 1941 : Mother of the British revolution -- Meet the Metropol -- 1917 : The making of a young revolutionary -- September 1941 : Buttering up the press -- October 1941 : The trouble with journalists -- October 1941 : The great Moscow panic -- November 1941 : The world is much poorer -- Winter 1941-42 : Feast in time of famine -- 1921-23 : Carry on spying -- 1942 : Girls of the Metropol -- Summer 1942 : Kremlin stooges and fascist beasts -- 1931-32 : Amerika -- Summer 1942 : Mr. and Mrs. Russia at home -- October 1942 : Prisoner of the Metropol -- 1942 : An army in exile -- 1943-44 : A Polish mass grave -- Summer 1943 : The visa weapon -- Who was the real Ralph Parker? -- November 1943 : The party at play -- February 1944 : A taste of abroad -- 1944-45 : "The ghosts on the roof" -- The Metropol's invisible wall -- May 1945 : Winston Smith in Moscow -- 1947-48 : The knock on the door -- 1951 : The hen and the eagle -- 1977 : From the Arctic to the Côte d'Azur -- Post-war.

"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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