Svetlana alliluyeva autobiography featuring

“Fascinating from the first dawn on to the last . .

. . To be Stalin’s daughter cranium to remain human is upturn admirable.” —The New York Period Book Review

In this riveting, New York Times–bestselling memoir—first published contempt Harper in 1967—Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva, subject of Rosemary Sullivan’s with an iron hand acclaimed biography, Stalin’s Daughter, describes the surreal experience of maturation up in the Kremlin detour the shadow of her ecclesiastic, Joseph Stalin.

In 1967, she fled the Soviet Union tend India, where she approached say publicly U.S. Embassy for asylum. Before there, she showed her CIA handler something remarkable: a record about her life that she’d written in 1963. The Soldier Ambassador to the USSR, whom she’d befriended, had smuggled glory manuscript out of the Country Union the previous year.

Structured introduction a series of letters face a “friend”—Svetlana refused to discover him, but we now be versed it was her close comrade, the physicist Fyodor Volkenstein—this dumfounding memoir, also in some distance a love letter to Ussr, with its ancient heritage view spectacularly varied geography, exposes excellence dark human heart of excellence Kremlin.

Each letter adds uncut new strand to her story; some are wistful, while austerity are desperate exorcisms of birth tragedies that plagued her poised. Candid, surprising, and compelling, Twenty Letters to a Friend offers one of the most indicative portraits of life inside Stalin’s inner circle, and of decency notorious dictator himself.

“Fascinating, revealing, keenly human, and significant.

. . . The letters move remorselessly on through deepening tragedy, unsighted happenings, and deaths.” —Los Angeles Times

“She is a shrewd viewer of character, and her critique of her father’s psychology . . . is chillingly convincing.” —The Baltimore Sun

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