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Hotel Lux
An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals
Book • 2024
Hotel Lux follows the lives of three revolutionary families—the O’Flahertys, Cohens, and Leonhards—whose paths converged in the Comintern’s Moscow living quarters, the Hotel Lux. Historian Maurice J. Casey delves into the connections and disconnections of these forgotten communist activists, including a brilliant Irish translator, a maverick author, the rebel daughters of an East London Jewish family, and a family of determined German anti-fascists.
The book provides an intimate insight into the legacies of the Russian Revolution, from its early idealism to the brutal Stalinist purges, and culminates in a queer love story between the daughters of the Cohen and Leonhard families.
The book provides an intimate insight into the legacies of the Russian Revolution, from its early idealism to the brutal Stalinist purges, and culminates in a queer love story between the daughters of the Cohen and Leonhard families.
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as a book that follows three connected families through the upheavals of the 20th century.

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Hotel Lux: the guesthouse of world revolution