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Stalin's daughter : the extraordinary and tumultuous life of Svetlana Alliluyeva

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  • "A painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin, a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history's most monstrous dictators - her father, Josef Stalin. Born in the early years of the Soviet Union, Svetlana Stalin spent her youth inside the walls of the Kremlin. Communist Party privilege protected her from the mass starvation and purges that haunted Russia, but she did not escape tragedy - the loss of everyone she loved, including her mother, two brothers, aunts and uncles, and a lover twice her age, deliberately exiled to Siberia by her father. As she gradually learned about the extent of her father's brutality after his death, Svetlana could no longer keep quiet and in 1967 shocked the world by defecting to the United States - leaving her two children behind. But although she was never a part of her father's regime, she could not escape his legacy. Her life in America was fractured; she moved frequently, married disastrously, shunned other Russian exiles, and ultimately died in poverty in Spring Green, Wisconsin. With access to KGB, CIA, and Soviet government archives, as well as the close cooperation of Svetlana's daughter, Rosemary Sullivan pieces together Svetlana's incredible life in a masterful account of unprecedented intimacy. Epic in scope, it's a revolutionary biography of a woman doomed to be a political prisoner of her father's name. Sullivan explores a complicated character in her broader context without ever losing sight of her powerfully human story, in the process opening a closed, brutal world that continues to fascinate us."
  • "The incredible story of a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history's most monstrous dictators. Stalin's Daughter is a work of narrative nonfiction on a grand scale. Svetlana Stalina's lifestory was more sensational than a Hollywood film, and forever shadowed by brutal tyranny and war. Svetlana Stalina's is a private life and yet it is also the story of the 20th century. No matter how many ways she tried, Svetlana could never escape her role as Stalin's daughter. She spent the first forty years of her life trapped within the gilded cage of the Kremlin; while she lived through the nightmares of mass starvation and the purges of millions, she was protected from that reality by the elitist, stifling world of Communist Party privilege. It could not save her from high drama and devastating loss in her personal life. The truth about her mother's violent death was hidden from her till she happened upon it at 16. Her first lover, a man twice her age, was exiled by her father, who forbade their liaison. She was twice divorced by the time she was 25. Her relatives disappeared, one after another, sent to war or into the Gulag. Slowly, the daughter of one of history's most brutal mass murderers faced the monstrosity of her father's life. In 1967, she shocked the world by denouncing communism and defecting to the United States, leaving her two children behind. She briefly lived at Taliesen with Frank Lloyd Wright's widow - who believed she was the reincarnation of her dead daughter of the same name. The second half of Svetlana's life, in America, became an odd parody of her former life, as if she carried the blueprint of Stalin's world within her. She continued to search for solace, and to run from her past, until, as Lana Peters, she died in poverty and obscurity at age 85 in a small town in Wisconsin. Even in death, her father's shadow engulfed her."

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  • "Biography"
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  • "Stalin's Daughter : The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva"
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