How Stalin isolated and pampered Western journalists in the gilded cage of the Metropol Hotel in order to control their output: their translators were often paid to share their beds, but others were brave dissenters who managed to give the reporters a more accurate picture of Soviet life and were punished for doing so in the Gulag.
The Red Hotel: The Untold Story of Stalin’s Disinformation War
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£22.00
Edition:Hardback978103540130727/04/2023
Categories: 02. Spring Books 2023: Historical, History, Spring Books 2023
Tags: Russia, WW2
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