Casey portrays 1920s Moscow as a “revolutionary sanctuary,” attracting British suffragettes, Irish revolutionaries, German communists, and others dreaming of justice and equality. Gathered in the ...

In the autumn of 2016, I became obsessed with solving a historical mystery surrounding an Irish woman who lived in Moscow’s Hotel Lux in the 1920s. The Hotel Lux – the so-called “living ...

The mayor of Moscow has ordered the demolition of the Rossiya (Russia) Hotel, a giant concrete box built beside the Kremlin in Soviet times. The hotel, the world's biggest when it was built in the ...

Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals Maurice J. Casey. Footnote, $29.95 (418p) ISBN 978-1-80444-099-5 ...

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Spanning decades of Russian history from the confines of a luxury hotel, “A Gentleman in Moscow” provides another strong TV showcase for Ewan McGregor, this time playing opposite his wife ...

Hotel Lux was the 1920s Moscow home of those who fled the capitalist west for the dream of communist revolution. These were often refugees from earlier phases of rebellion elsewhere.

David McCullagh reviews Maurice J. Casey's new book Hotel Lux, subtitled An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals.. This book is crammed full of stories of fascinating people who led ...

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