{"product_id":"stalins-daughter-the-extraordinary-and-tumultuous-life-of-svetlana-alliluyeva-9780062206121","title":"Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNational Book Critics Circle Award Finalist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePEN Literary Award Finalist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003eNotable Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWashington Post \u003c\/em\u003eNotable Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBoston Globe \u003c\/em\u003eBest Book of the Year\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eVilla Air-Bel\u003c\/em\u003e returns with a painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin, a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history's most monstrous dictators--her father, Josef Stalin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in the early years of the Soviet Union, Svetlana Stalin spent her youth inside the walls of the Kremlin. Communist Party privilege protected her from the mass starvation and purges that haunted Russia, but she did not escape tragedy--the loss of everyone she loved, including her mother, two brothers, aunts and uncles, and a lover twice her age, deliberately exiled to Siberia by her father.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs she gradually learned about the extent of her father's brutality after his death, Svetlana could no longer keep quiet and in 1967 shocked the world by defecting to the United States--leaving her two children behind. But although she was never a part of her father's regime, she could not escape his legacy. Her life in America was fractured; she moved frequently, married disastrously, shunned other Russian exiles, and ultimately died in poverty in Wisconsin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith access to KGB, CIA, and Soviet government archives, as well as the close cooperation of Svetlana's daughter, Rosemary Sullivan pieces together Svetlana's incredible life in a masterful account of unprecedented intimacy. Epic in scope, it's a revolutionary biography of a woman doomed to be a political prisoner of her father's name. Sullivan explores a complicated character in her broader context without ever losing sight of her powerfully human story, in the process opening a closed, brutal world that continues to fascinate us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIllustrated with photographs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSullivan, Rosemary:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eROSEMARY SULLIVAN, \u003c\/strong\u003ethe author of fifteen books\u003cstrong\u003e, \u003c\/strong\u003eis best known for her recent biography \u003cem\u003eStalin's Daughter. \u003c\/em\u003e Published in twenty-three countries, it won the Biographers International Organization Plutarch Award and was a finalist for the PEN \/Bograd Weld Award for Biography and the National Books Critics Circle Award. Her book \u003cem\u003eVilla Air-Bel \u003c\/em\u003ewas awarded the Canadian Society for Yad Vashem Award in Holocaust History. She is a professor emeritus at the university of Toronto and has lectured in Canada, the U.S., Europe, India, and Latin America. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50317939933458,"sku":"9780062206121","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e96efd3e-0b05-4808-bf1f-83746e17a64c.jpg?v=1727543488","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/stalins-daughter-the-extraordinary-and-tumultuous-life-of-svetlana-alliluyeva-9780062206121","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}