Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva, (Hardcover)

from MaggieFlo

I listened to the audio version on a long car trip. I'm not sure if the print version has a family tree as i found it difficult to follow all of the people that the author refers to. This is a long biography of Svetlana Stalin the only daughter of Joseph Stalin, the former leader of the Soviet Un...

from KaterinaBead

I think Svetlana Alliluyeva (Stalin) deserves a posthumous award for heroism. Her defection to the U.S. in 1967 was the perfect anniversary gift for the Bolsheviks, their Revolution, and the Stalin Regime. Escaping them was an embarrassing slap in their faces, which they richly deserved what with...

from EllenH

Excellent book on Svetlana Alliluyeva. Not very flattering accounts of the people who took advantage of her here in America, especially Olgivanna Wright and Wesley Peters and the Frank Lloyd Wright Taliesin group.

from kremsa

Stalin's Daughter is a very well researched and written biography about Svetlana Alliluyava. I knew nothing about her prior to reading this book and was intrigued by much of what I read. She was a woman who led a tragic life and seemed to constantly be running away from or moving to another place...

from bogopea

Well- researched and written.