Historian Maurice J Casey explains how Stalin’s megalomania and paranoia during the 1930s turned into terror and surveillance – casting the international revolutionaries living at Moscow’s Hotel Lux as ‘foreign saboteurs’ working to undermine the Soviet Union.

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