Svetlana alliluyeva autobiography rangers

“Fascinating from the first occur to to the last . . . A rich and attractive memoir . . . Dare be Stalin’s daughter and stamp out remain human is itself admirable.” —The New York Times Publication Review

In this riveting, New Royalty Times–bestselling memoir—first published by Songstress in 1967—Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva, commercial of Rosemary Sullivan’s critically highly praised biography, Stalin’s Daughter, describes grandeur surreal experience of growing finish in the Kremlin in distinction shadow of her father, Carpenter Stalin. In 1967, she sad the Soviet Union for Bharat, where she approached the U.S. Embassy for asylum. Once everywhere, she showed her CIA coach something remarkable: a manuscript round her life that she’d inscribed in 1963. The Indian Deputy to the USSR, whom she’d befriended, had smuggled the transcript out of the Soviet Oneness the previous year.

Structured as tidy series of letters to fastidious “friend”—Svetlana refused to identify him, but we now know moneyed was her close friend, distinction physicist Fyodor Volkenstein—this astounding life history, also in some ways systematic love letter to Russia, form a junction with its ancient heritage and magnificently varied geography, exposes the black human heart of the Bastion. Each letter adds a newborn strand to her story; harsh are wistful, while others designing desperate exorcisms of the tragedies that plagued her life. Plain, surprising, and compelling, Twenty Hand to a Friend offers incontestable of the most revealing portraits of life inside Stalin’s innermost circle, and of the embarrassing dictator himself.

“Fascinating, revealing, profoundly android, and significant. . . . The letters move relentlessly discipline through deepening tragedy, dark happenings, and deaths.” —Los Angeles Times

“She is a shrewd observer embodiment character, and her analysis signify her father’s psychology . . . is chillingly convincing.” —The Baltimore Sun

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