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Casey Maurice J
Hotel Lux An Intimate History Of Communism's Forgotten Radicals
Hotel Lux An Intimate History Of Communism's Forgotten Radicals
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Description: Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2024: History Book of the Year Hotel Lux is an unforgettable book bringing to life not only its protagonists but an entire world and offering a new glimpse of a vanished past Sally Rooney If affection is the first ground of memory the archive is its late flowering and Hotel Lux its conservatory Casey's history a tender nurture of pasts we overlook but which whisper to us all the same Irish Times Hotel Lux follows Irish radical May O Callaghan and her friends three revolutionary families brought together by their vision for a communist future and their time spent in the Comintern's Moscow living quarters the Hotel Lux. Historian Maurice Casey reveals the connections and disconnections of a group of forgotten communist activists whose lives collided in 1920s Moscow: 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 dramatic and interlocking histories of the O Flahertys Cohens and Leonhards offer an intimate insight into the legacies of the Russian Revolution from its earliest idealism through to the brutal Stalinist purges and beyond. Hotel Lux uncovers a world of forgotten radicals who saw their hopes and dreams crash against reality yet retained their faith in a beautiful future for all. Culminating in a queer love story that saw the daughters of the Cohens and Leonhards create an enduring partnership even as their parents political visions crumbled this is a multi - generational rebel odyssey and a history of international communism one which looks as much to the future as it does to the past.
Title: Hotel Lux An Intimate History Of Communism's Forgotten Radicals
Author(s): Casey Maurice J
Publisher: Footnote Press Ltd
Barcode: 9781804440995
Pages: 418 Pages
Publication Date: 10/8/2024
Category: Revolutionary Groups & Movements
Description: Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2024: History Book of the Year Hotel Lux is an unforgettable book bringing to life not only its protagonists but an entire world and offering a new glimpse of a vanished past Sally Rooney If affection is the first ground of memory the archive is its late flowering and Hotel Lux its conservatory Casey's history a tender nurture of pasts we overlook but which whisper to us all the same Irish Times Hotel Lux follows Irish radical May O Callaghan and her friends three revolutionary families brought together by their vision for a communist future and their time spent in the Comintern's Moscow living quarters the Hotel Lux. Historian Maurice Casey reveals the connections and disconnections of a group of forgotten communist activists whose lives collided in 1920s Moscow: 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 dramatic and interlocking histories of the O Flahertys Cohens and Leonhards offer an intimate insight into the legacies of the Russian Revolution from its earliest idealism through to the brutal Stalinist purges and beyond. Hotel Lux uncovers a world of forgotten radicals who saw their hopes and dreams crash against reality yet retained their faith in a beautiful future for all. Culminating in a queer love story that saw the daughters of the Cohens and Leonhards create an enduring partnership even as their parents political visions crumbled this is a multi - generational rebel odyssey and a history of international communism one which looks as much to the future as it does to the past.
Title: Hotel Lux An Intimate History Of Communism's Forgotten Radicals
Author(s): Casey Maurice J
Publisher: Footnote Press Ltd
Barcode: 9781804440995
Pages: 418 Pages
Publication Date: 10/8/2024
Category: Revolutionary Groups & Movements