She was the darling of her supreme dictator father, but before she turned 7, her mother killed herself-though suicide was not the “official” cause of death. In her early years, she grew up in the ideologically strenuous Soviet Union, with the run of the Kremlin and various dachas. There is a parallel strangeness to the two halves of Svetlana’s life. A biography of haunting fascination portrays its subject as a pawn of historical circumstance who tried valiantly to create her own life.Ĭanadian biographer Sullivan’s previous works ( Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille, 2006, etc.) often took her into the complicated lives of women artists, and in this sympathetic biography of Stalin’s daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926-2011), the author has illuminated another challenging, mercurial subject.
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