Sullivan Rosemary: Staljinova kći

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Staljinova kći

Sullivan Rosemary

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Rosemary Sullivan: Stalin's daughter

The unusual and stormy life of Svetlana Aliluyeva

"You should not complain about your fate, although I regret that my mother did not marry a carpenter", said Svetlana Aliluyeva, daughter of Joseph Visarionovich Stalin, in an interview for the Independent in March 1990. In her truly unusual and stormy life, full of incredible twists and turns that greatly exceed the plots of spy bestsellers, the short twentieth century is mirrored, the center of which is the conflict between two ideologically and militarily opposed blocs, a conflict in which she was treated as "state property" on the one hand, and abused for political and media manipulation on the other. As a little girl, whom her father affectionately called her "sparrow", she ran around the Kremlin, unaware that those cheerful men stroking her hair were organizing mass deportations and murders, whose victims were also her closest relatives. Her mother's suicide and the knowledge of Stalin's crimes left an indelible mark on her soul. Having defected to the West in 1967, she got rich selling her memoirs and became world famous; she died alone, poor and anonymous. Trying to escape from "her fate", she tried to find peace in numerous marriages, changing dozens of addresses on several continents. To no avail. But what fascinates in this masterfully narrated biography is the willpower of a fragile and confused human being to oppose both the creepy family legacy and the monstrous visible and invisible power centers.

Rosemary Sullivan is a world-renowned Canadian writer, author of short prose, poetry, literary criticism and nonfiction. Her latest book, Stalin's Daughter: The Unusual and Stormy Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva has been translated into more than twenty languages. Previous publications include books such as Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape and a House in Marseille, Labyrinth of Desire: Women, Passion, and Romantic Obsession, as well as biographies of Elizabeth Smart, Gwendolyn MacEwen and Margaret Atwood. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto.

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