{"product_id":"book-imlm","title":"The Red Hotel","description":"In 1941, 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. Stalin imposed the most draconian controls—unbending censorship, no visits to the battlefront, and a ban on contact with ordinary citizens.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Red Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e explores this gilded cage of the Metropol Hotel. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut beneath the surface, the Metropol was roiling with intrigue. Using British archives and Soviet sources, the unique role of the women of the Metropol, both as consummate propagandists and secret dissenters, is told for the first time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the end of the war when Lenin returned to Red Square, the reporters went home, but the memory of Stalin's ruthless control of the wartime narrative lived on in the Kremlin. The story of the Metropol mirrors the struggles of our own modern era.","brand":"Tantor","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49350241222960,"sku":"BDimlm","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49350241255728,"sku":"ZEimlm","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49350241288496,"sku":"ZMimlm","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/imlm-Square-cover.jpg?v=1780454555","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-imlm","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}