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“Fascinating from the first page to the last... A rich and absorbing memoir... To be Stalin's daughter and to remain human is itself admirable.” —The New York Times Book ReviewIn this riveting, New York Times–bestselling memoir—first published by Harper in 1967—Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva, subject of Rosemary Sullivan's critically acclaimed biography, Stalin's Daughter, describes the surreal experience of growing up in the Kremlin in the shadow of her father, Joseph Stalin. In 1967, she fled the Soviet Union for India, where she approached the U.S. Embassy for asylum. Once there, she showed her CIA handler something remarkable: a manuscript about her life that she'd written in 1963. The Indian Ambassador to the USSR, whom she'd befriended, had smuggled the manuscript out of the Soviet Union the previous year.Structured as a series of letters to a “friend”—Svetlana refused to identify him, but we now know it was her close friend, the physicist Fyodor Volkenstein—this astounding memoir, also in some ways a love letter to Russia, with its ancient heritage and spectacularly varied geography, exposes the dark human heart of the Kremlin. Each letter adds a new strand to her story; some

Author

Svetlana Alliluyeva

Publisher

Harper Perennial

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062442604

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography

Rating

4.5 / 5 (88 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14