The Red Hotel 红色酒店EPUB电子书下载(本期经济学人推荐图书）

The untold history of Moscow’s Metropol hotel—a fervent spot of intrigue, secrets, and the center of Stalin’s nefarious propaganda during WWII.
莫斯科大都会酒店的未被揭示的历史——一个充满阴谋、秘密和斯大林在二战期间邪恶宣传的热点。

In 1941, when German armies were marching towards Moscow, 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. To turn these reporters into Kremlin mouthpieces, Stalin imposed the most draconian controls – unbending censorship, no visits to the battle front, and a ban on contact with ordinary citizens.
1941年，当德军向莫斯科挺进时，列宁的遗体从红场的陵墓被转移到西伯利亚。到了1945年，胜利的斯大林将一个贫穷的国家变成了一个胜利的超级大国。在这四年的时间里，斯大林在丘吉尔的坚持下，接受了一个英美新闻团队在莫斯科报道东线战事。为了将这些记者变成克里姆林宫的喉舌，斯大林实施了最严苛的控制措施——严格的审查制度，禁止前线参观，以及与普通市民接触的禁令。

The Red Hotel explores this gilded cage of the Metropol Hotel. They enjoyed lavish supplies of caviar and had their choice of young women to employ as translators and share their beds. On the surface, this regime served Stalin well: his plans to control Eastern Europe as a Sovietised ‘outer empire’ were never reported and the most outrageous Soviet lies went unchallenged.
《红色酒店》探索了梅特罗波利酒店这个镀金的牢笼。他们享受着丰盛的鱼子酱供应，并可以选择年轻女性作为翻译员并与之共度夜晚。表面上，这个体制对斯大林来说很有利：他控制东欧作为苏联化的“外部帝国”的计划从未被报道，最荒谬的苏联谎言也没有受到质疑。

But beneath the surface the Metropol was roiling with intrigue. While some of the translators turned journalists into robotic conveyors of Kremlin propaganda, others were secret dissidents who whispered to reporters the reality of Soviet life and were punished with sentences in the Gulag. 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.
但在表面之下，大都会酒店却充满了阴谋。虽然有些翻译将记者变成了克里姆林宫宣传的机器人，但也有一些秘密的异见者向记者们低声诉说苏联生活的真相，并因此被判入古拉格。通过英国档案和苏联资料，我们首次讲述了大都会酒店的女性在宣传工作和秘密异见方面的独特角色。

At 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. From the weaponization of disinformation to the falsification of history, from the moving of borders to the neutralisation of independent states, the story of the Metropol mirrors the struggles of our own modern era.
在战争结束时，列宁回到红场，记者们回家了，但斯大林对战时叙事的无情控制的记忆在克里姆林宫中延续。从武器化的虚假信息到历史的篡改，从边界的移动到独立国家的中立化，大都会酒店的故事反映了我们自己现代时代的斗争。