Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva Hardcover - 2015
by Rosemary Sullivan
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Award-winning author Rosemary Sullivan returns with a revelatory biography of Svetlana Alliluyeva, a woman fated to live in the shadow of her father, the notorious Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.
Born in 1926, Svetlana Alliluyeva spent her youth inside the Kremlin as her father's power soared along with that of the Soviet Union. Eighty-five years later, she died alone and penniless in rural Wisconsin as Lana Peters. Revealed here for the first time, the many lives of Joseph Stalin's daughter form a riveting portrait of a woman who fled halfway around the world to escape her birthright.
Svetlana was protected from the mass starvation and murder that her father inflicted upon Soviet citizens, but she was not immune to tragedy. She lost almost everyone she loved, including her mother, who committed suicide, and her father's merciless purges claimed the lives of aunts and uncles, and her lover, who was exiled to Siberia.
After her father's death, Svetlana discovered the extent of his cruelty. Balking at the control the Kremlin still exerted over her life, she shocked the world by defecting to the United States at the height of the Cold War--leaving behind two children. However, in America Svetlana found only more heartbreak. For a time, Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin community, overseen by his controversial third wife, Olgivanna, formed a second family for her; Svetlana married Wesley Peters, a member of the inner circle, and they had a child. But Olgivanna manipulated their friendship for financial gain, and the marriage disintegrated. No matter how much distance she put between her past and her present, she could not undo the emotional and psychological damage her father had wrought.
With access to FBI, CIA, and Russian State Archives, and with the close cooperation of Svetlana's daughter, Rosemary Sullivan has created a masterly biography that is epic in scope yet narrated with remarkable intimacy. Stalin's Daughter deftly places Svetlana in a broader context of time and place, without losing sight of her powerfully human story. In the process, this multifaceted narrative reveals the heart of a brutal world and offers an unprecedented look at its mastermind.Details
- Title Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
- Author Rosemary Sullivan
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition; F
- Pages 768
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper, NY
- Date 2015-06
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated
- ISBN 9780062206107 / 0062206109
- Weight 2.05 lbs (0.93 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.9 in (23.11 x 16.00 x 4.83 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Cultural Region: Russian
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Immigrants - United States, Soviet Union - History - 1925-1953
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014045982
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Citations
- Booklist, 05/01/2015, Page 73
- Kirkus Best Nonfiction, 12/01/2015, Page 42
- Kirkus Reviews, 03/15/2015, Page 0
- Library Journal, 04/15/2015, Page 94
- New York Review of Books, 11/19/2015, Page 60
- New York Times Book Review, 06/14/2015, Page 9
- NY Times Notable Bks of Year, 12/06/2015, Page 28
- Publishers Weekly, 04/06/2015, Page 0
- Quill & Quire, 06/01/2015, Page 29
- Shelf Awareness, 06/19/2015, Page 0
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