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First published in Great Britain by Fourth Estate in 2015
First published in the United States by Harper in 2015
Copyright © Rosemary Sullivan 2015
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Cover photograph © The David King Collection
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Source ISBN: 9780007491117
Ebook Edition © June 2015 ISBN: 9780007491124
Version: 2016-06-29
For my mother,
Leanore Marjorie Guthrie Sullivan
Frontispiece: Eight-year-old Svetlana with her father, Joseph Stalin, on vacation in Soshi.
(Svetlana Aliluyeva private collection; courtesy of Chrese Evans)
Contents
The Djugashvili and Alliluyev Family Trees
PART ONE: The Kremlin Years
Chapter 1 That Place of Sunshine
Chapter 3 The Hostess and the Peasant
Chapter 5 The Circle of Secrets and Lies
Chapter 8 The Anti-Cosmopolitan Campaign
Chapter 9 Everything Silent, as Before a Storm
Chapter 10 The Death of the Vozhd
PART TWO: The Soviet Reality
Chapter 12 The Generalissimo’s Daughter
Chapter 15 On the Banks of the Ganges
PART THREE: Flight to America
Chapter 16 Italian Comic Opera
Chapter 20 A Mysterious Figure
Chapter 21 Letters to a Friend
Chapter 24 The Taliesin Fiasco
Chapter 25 The Montenegrin’s Courtier
Chapter 26 Stalin’s Daughter Cutting the Grass
Chapter 28 Lana Peters, American Citizen
Chapter 29 The Modern Jungle of Freedom