Stalin's daughter : the extraordinary and tumultuous life of Svetlana Alliluyeva / Rosemary Sullivan.

First edition.

9780062206107 (hardcover)
0062206109 (hardcover)
9780062206121 (paperback)
0062206125 (paperback)

New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015]

English

xviii, 741 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 24 cm

DK275.A4 S85 2015

947.084/2092 B

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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 697-703) and index.

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