Svetlana alliluyeva autobiography sample
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Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
Like Elizabeth Taylor, whose movies she loved, Svetlana Iosifina Alliluyeva was a celebrity of sorts, emotionally needy and much-married, hounded by the press.
Svetlana alliluyeva autobiography sample
But in some ways, her early life more closely paralleled that of another famous Elizabeth, the Tudor queen. Like the monarch, Svetlana was the well-educated daughter of an infamously demanding “king,” whose mother died at her father’s hands (Nadya Alliluyeva’s suicide being attributable to spousal abuse).
One cannot read Stalin's Daughter without wondering how it might have profited from comparing its subject to previous and contemporary examples.
Alas, despite its considerable length and the access the author enjoyed to her subject’s family and personal papers, the story suffers from debilitating shallowness.
From one highly educated female author (Sullivan is a professor emeritus at the University of Toront