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Only One Year: How Joseph Stalin's Daughter Broke Through the Iron Curtain, A Memoir
Only One Year: How Joseph Stalin's Daughter Broke Through the Iron Curtain, A Memoir
Only One Year: How Joseph Stalin's Daughter Broke Through the Iron Curtain, A Memoir
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Only One Year: How Joseph Stalin's Daughter Broke Through the Iron Curtain, A Memoir

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“Among the great Russian autobiographical works: Herzen, Kropotkin, Tolstoy’s Confession.” —Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker

After the success of her New York Times bestselling childhood memoir Twenty Letters to a Friend, Josef Stalin’s daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva—subject of Rosemary Sullivan’s critically acclaimed biography Stalin’s Daughter—penned this riveting account of her year-long journey to defect from the USSR and start a new life in America.

The story of Only One Year begins on December 19, 1966, as Svetlana Alliluyeva leaves Russia for India, on a one-month visa, in the custody of an employee of the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It ends on December 19, 1967, in Princeton, New Jersey, as she and two American friends join in a toast to her new life of freedom.

That year of pain, discovery, turmoil, and new hope reaches its climax with her decision to break completely from the world of Communism, to turn her back on her country, her children, and the legacy of her notorious father—Joseph Stalin. Why did she make such a drastic choice? This book, a detailed account of reality in the USSR, is her explanation.

Frank, fascinating, and thoroughly engrossing, Only One Year reveals life behind the Iron Curtain, the risks and subterfuge of defection, and one extraordinary woman’s fight for her future.

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Release dateJan 24, 2017
ISBN9780062442635
Only One Year: How Joseph Stalin's Daughter Broke Through the Iron Curtain, A Memoir
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Svetlana Alliluyeva

Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva (1926-2011), later known as Lana Peters, was the youngest child and only daughter of Joseph Stalin and Nadezhda Alliluyeva. In 1967, she defected and became a naturalized citizen of the United States. She returned briefly to the Soviet Union in 1984, but then moved back to the United States and died in Wisconsin in November 2011.

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    A compelling, captivating and honest memoir from the daughter of one of the most notorious tyrants in history, Stalin. You can hardly find more inside knowledge than this. Her cold misogynist father, the politics of the country, her own tormenting decision to escape and the actual process of her defection - all this is written with a skill of a person who truly knows herself, and, for me, the book is a fine answer to all the negative speculations that were abundant at the time when she broke all ties with her country. True, not every woman would leave her 2 children (17 and 22 at the time, the older one married) never to return (well, she did return much, much later, but it was not a successful return), but I also feel that we cannot judge her, we can only try to put ourselves in her shoes...

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