Stalin's daughter the extraordinary and tumultuous life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
"The award-winning author of Villa Air-Bel returns with 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 Stal...
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New York, NY :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2015]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The Djugashvili and Alliluyev family trees ; Preface ; Prologue: The defection
- Part One: 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 Two: The Soviet reality. The ghosts return ; The generalissimo's daughter ; Post-thaw ; The gentle brahmin ; On the banks of the Ganges
- Part Three: 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 Four: 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
- Acknowledgments
- List of characters
- Sources
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Illustration credits
- Index.
