{"product_id":"stalins-daughter-the-extraordinary-and-tumultuous-life-of-svetlana-alliluyeva-9780062206107","title":"Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePEN Literary Award Finalist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNational Book Critics Circle Award Finalist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003eNotable Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWashington Post \u003c\/em\u003eNotable Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eVilla Air-Bel\u003c\/em\u003e returns with a painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin, a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history's most monstrous dictators--her father, Josef Stalin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in the early years of the Soviet Union, Svetlana Stalin spent her youth inside the walls of the Kremlin. Communist Party privilege protected her from the mass starvation and purges that haunted Russia, but she did not escape tragedy--the loss of everyone she loved, including her mother, two brothers, aunts and uncles, and a lover twice her age, deliberately exiled to Siberia by her father.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs she gradually learned about the extent of her father's brutality after his death, Svetlana could no longer keep quiet and in 1967 shocked the world by defecting to the United States--leaving her two children behind. But although she was never a part of her father's regime, she could not escape his legacy. Her life in America was fractured; she moved frequently, married disastrously, shunned other Russian exiles, and ultimately died in poverty in Wisconsin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith access to KGB, CIA, and Soviet government archives, as well as the close cooperation of Svetlana's daughter, Rosemary Sullivan pieces together Svetlana's incredible life in a masterful account of unprecedented intimacy. Epic in scope, it's a revolutionary biography of a woman doomed to be a political prisoner of her father's name. Sullivan explores a complicated character in her broader context without ever losing sight of her powerfully human story, in the process opening a closed, brutal world that continues to fascinate us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIllustrated with photographs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/02\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780062206107\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 768\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Hilary Weston Prize for Nonfiction - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e RBC Taylor Prize - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e National Book Critics Circle Award - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e ALA Notable Books - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Literary Award - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/06\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/2015 pg. 94\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2015 pg. 73\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2015 pg. 29\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/14\/2015 pg. 9\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/19\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/21\/2015 pg. 22\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/19\/2015 pg. 60\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNY Times Notable Bks of Year\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/06\/2015 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Best Nonfiction\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2015 pg. 42\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rosemary Sullivan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52715378868405,"sku":"9780062206107","price":29.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/stalins-daughter-the-extraordinary-and-tumultuous-life-of-svetlana-alliluyeva-9780062206107","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}