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In this riveting, New York Times-bestselling memoirāfirst published by Harper in 1967āSvetlana Alliluyeva, subject of Rosemary Sullivanās critically acclaimed biography, Stalinās Daughter, describes the surreal experience of growing up in the Kremlin in the shadow of her father, Joseph Stalin.
Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva, later known as Lana Peters, was theā¦
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Svetlana Alliluyeva was Josef Stalinās daughter. In 1967 she fled to the West bringing this memoir with her. It was published to universal acclaim in the same year. An epistolary memoir it gives remarkable insight into her life growing up in the Kremlin. Haunting, at times lyrical, always affecting, she shows Stalin as something other than the monster we take him to be. She makes no excuses for him but it is salutary to see him portrayed as a father and a human being. An antidote to the all-too-easy dismissal of him as āa monsterā.
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