Stalin's daughter : the extraordinary and tumultuous life of Svetlana Alliluyeva / Rosemary Sullivan.
Sullivan, Rosemary, 1947- author.
2015
DK275.A4 S85 2015 (Mapit)
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Title Stalin's daughter : the extraordinary and tumultuous life of Svetlana Alliluyeva / Rosemary Sullivan.
Author Sullivan, Rosemary, 1947- author.
Edition First edition.
ISBN 9780062206107 (hardcover)
0062206109 (hardcover)
9780062206121 (paperback)
0062206125 (paperback)
Published New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015]
Language English
Description xviii, 741 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 24 cm
Call Number DK275.A4 S85 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification 947.084/2092 B
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 697-703) and index.
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Prologue: The defection
Part I. The Kremlin years. That place of sunshine
A motherless child
The hostess and the peasant
The terror
The circle of secrets and lies
Love story
A Jewish wedding
The anti-cosmopolitan campaign
Everything silent, as before a storm
The death of the Vozhd
Part II. The Soviet reality. The ghosts return
The generalissimo's daughter
Post-thaw
The gentle brahman
On the banks of the Ganges
Part III. Flight to America. Italian comic opera
Diplomatic fury
Attorneys at work
The arrival
A mysterious figure
Letters to a friend
A cruel rebuff
Only one year
The Taliesin fiasco
The Montenegran's courtier
Stalin's daughter cutting the grass
A KGB stool pigeon
Lana Peters, American citizen
The modern jungle of freedom
Part IV. Learning to live in the West. Chaucer Road
Back in the USSR
Tbilisi interlude
American reality
"Never wear a tight skirt if you intend to commit suicide"
My dear, they haven't changed a bit
Final return.

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