The Red Hotel: The Untold Story of Stalin’s Disinformation War by Alan Philps (Farsi)

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The Red Hotel: Stalin’s Disinformation War by Alan Philps is a powerful investigative history that reveals how Stalin manipulated the foreign press during World War II. Philps—an expert on Russia and former foreign editor of The Telegraph—explains how British and American correspondents stationed in Moscow were tightly controlled, fed curated narratives, and pressured to reproduce Kremlin propaganda about the Eastern Front. Centered on the luxurious Metropol Hotel, where journalists were both pampered and monitored, the book uncovers a world where translators served as both seducers and informants, turning some reporters into obedient transmitters of Soviet messaging while others courageously whispered the harsh realities of life in the USSR, often at great personal cost.