--- product_id: 37555977 title: "Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva – The Plutarch Award-Winning Biography of Defection and Legacy" brand: "rosemary sullivan" price: "26018CFA" currency: XOF in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.sn/products/37555977-stalins-daughter-the-extraordinary-and-tumultuous-life-of-svetlana-alliluyeva store_origin: SN region: Senegal --- # Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva – The Plutarch Award-Winning Biography of Defection and Legacy **Brand:** rosemary sullivan **Price:** 26018CFA **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva – The Plutarch Award-Winning Biography of Defection and Legacy by rosemary sullivan - **How much does it cost?** 26018CFA with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sn](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/37555977-stalins-daughter-the-extraordinary-and-tumultuous-life-of-svetlana-alliluyeva) ## Best For - rosemary sullivan enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted rosemary sullivan brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva ## Images ![Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva – The Plutarch Award-Winning Biography of Defection and Legacy - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61pSA7b6JEL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ An Amazing Read-never a Dull Moment *by S***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 17, 2020* Just completed reading this amazing book about the life of Stalin’s Daughter by Rosemary Sullivan. It gives us a very accurate picture of Svetlana Alliluyeva, who bore the mark of Cain - Stalin’s Daughter, of which she was conscious all her life and this had somehow determined her behaviour. She would have preferred not to be Stalin’s daughter and that her father would have been an unknown carpenter.She lost her mother when she was six years old. Her mother, Nadezhda “Nadya” (Alliluyeva) Stalina was Stalin’s second wife. She committed suicide and Svetlana had very few memories of her. Svetlana’s relationship with her father was very complicated. It was a sort of love-hate relationship. She was not aware of the cruelties that her father had carried out even against his own family. He had no mercy for any of his imagined opponents, who were assassinated or imprisoned for long periods. Stalin was a total paranoiac. The food that he was served had to be tasted by his own servants in front of him before being served.The author had done amazing and thorough research on this biography. While reading this book, one feels very involved in Svetlana’s tough life. One can empathize with her. Svetlana defected to the US in 1967, abandoning her two children, who never forgave her.Svetlana had married three times in the USSR. The first husband, Grigori “Grisha” Morozov, a Jewish friend of Vasili her brother, who she married in 1944 and divorced in 1947. He became a law professor.Her second husband, Yuri Zhdanov, who she married in the 1949 and divorced in 1951.Her third husband was Johnreed “Johnik” (Ivan) Svanidze, who had a very tough life, and was exiled to Kazakhstan to work in the mines there. He returned to Moscow in 1956 and married Svetlana. They got divorced after a year.Her fourth husband was an Indian, son of the Rajah of Kalakankar in Uttar Pradesh. He suffered from ill-health when he met Svetlana in 1963. He died in 1966. After that, she defected.The book continues describing her dramatic defection to the US after her fourth husband’s death and her life there.Her life was very dramatic and she was constantly meeting people who befriended her and many also abandoned their friendship with her as well. She was never happy and was always relocating and even lived in England for a while with her third daughter from a disastrous marriage to an American, Wesley Peters, an architect.All in all, this book is a fascinating read and describes Svetlana’s lifestyle and her personal tragedies as a writer. This book also gives us an insight into Svetlana’s complicated relationships with many of her friends and her slide down into financial problems, much of which are her own making.This is an excellent read and never boring not for a moment. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ which showed up even in one of their favorite games: Hostess *by J***. on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 27, 2015* ‘Stalin’s Daughter,’ by Rosemary Sullivan, Looks at a Complicated Life. Reviewed in NY Times“The strongest proof that Svetlana Alliluyeva was Joseph Stalin’s daughter is that this small, demure-looking redhead scared people — and not just because her face and coloring so resembled her father’s.She had some of his fevered intensity, which showed up even in one of their favorite games: Hostess, in which little Svetlana gave bossy orders, and Russia’s unopposed tyrant, in the role of her humble Secretary, pretended to grovel in response. When he wasn’t signing letters to her as “Your Little Papa,” the man who struck fear in many a Russian heart was calling himself, in 1935, “Svetanka-Hostess’s wretched Secretary, the poor peasant J. Stalin,” for his 9-year-old princess’s amusement.But a lot of Stalin’s teasing had a tone of threat to it, too. Nikita S. Khrushchev once said of this father-daughter relationship that “his was the tenderness of a cat for a mouse.” And as Svetlana grew up and saw the fear that her father, and even she, aroused, she was too smart to mistake the fairy tales he told her for Russian reality. Looking backward, as the Canadian historian Rosemary Sullivan does clearly and evenhandedly in “Stalin’s Daughter,” it appears astounding that the girl who could have had the world’s worst daddy issues managed to grow up at all.The early part of this book is a tangle of fried and burned family relationships, all destroyed by Stalin as he rose to power. Though he was dependent on a large extended family during Svetlana’s earliest years, family portraits from that time must be captioned with the names of those he arrested, had shot or otherwise caused to disappear.Most egregious and mysterious is the matter of the little girl’s mother, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, known as Nadya, who supposedly shot herself after a long, bitter evening of quarreling with her husband in front of many witnesses. The degree to which Svetlana was sheltered — she was 6 ½ at the time — was so extreme that she did not know of her mother’s possible suicide until years later.Ms. Sullivan fills this measured, informative biography with contrasting theories about such events, because there is no such thing as an uncomplicated death that involved Joseph Stalin. But it is not a highly opinionated book. It paints a strong but slightly distant portrait of the headstrong Svetlana, whose every brush with adversity seemed to make her tougher. She grew up to be so sexually charged that she became a danger to any man on whom she set her sights.When she had just turned 17, her romance with Aleksei Yakovlevich Kapler, a worldly Jewish cineaste, brought them some remarkable movie-watching moments (Garbo, in “Queen Christina”: “I have grown up in a great man’s shadow. I long to escape my destiny.”). It also brought Kapler five years in a labor camp — and another five after he stealthily visited Moscow, not looking for Svetlana but simply trying to see his wife.Still, Svetlana entered into three official marriages in Russia (one a purely political arrangement cooked up by her father) and one common-law union before the dying wish of the last man, Brajesh Singh, allowed her to leave the country. He was Indian-born, and he wanted his ashes scattered on the Ganges. Svetlana liked India and perhaps would have enjoyed staying there indefinitely, had she not sensed opportunity at the American Embassy in New Delhi. But the book grows ever more fascinating in explaining how her 1967 decision to defect made for a huge mess late in the Cold War and turned her into a political football”. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A reminder to eschew madmen *by S***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 2, 2022* A tyrant whose ego ran wildStarved millions while spoiling his child.Behind the Iron Curtain, one thing is for certain:A madman leaves none undefiled.#bookreviewsaslimericks --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.sn/products/37555977-stalins-daughter-the-extraordinary-and-tumultuous-life-of-svetlana-alliluyeva](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/37555977-stalins-daughter-the-extraordinary-and-tumultuous-life-of-svetlana-alliluyeva) --- *Product available on Desertcart Senegal* *Store origin: SN* *Last updated: 2026-10-13*