HOTEL LUX

The extraordinary story of a group of forgotten radicals who found themselves drawn to communist Moscow s hotbed of international revolutionary activity the Hotel Lux 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 od