Svetlana’s rental on Mercer Street, 465–78
Svetlana’s returns to as American citizen Lana Peters, 465–82
Svetlana’s returns to 50 Wilson Road, 427, 428–46, 447
University Chapel, 353
Progress Publishers, 249, 253, 255
Proydenny put’ (A Traveled Path) (Sergei Alliluyev), 152
Pushkin, 340
Putin, Vladimir, 614–16, 614n, 617
Quaker Friends’ School, 642
Queen Christina (film), 114
Raczynskaya, Sofia, 164–65
Radio Free Europe, 289
Rahv, Philip, 385–86
Randall, Deirdre, 356, 363, 364, 365, 366–67
Rapoport, Dr. Yakov, 636
Doctors’ Plot and, 175–76, 184
release of, 195–96
Stalin’s death and, 184, 189
Rayle, Ramona, 7, 357, 470, 566, 618, 619
Rayle, Robert, 127, 275, 308, 469–70, 566, 609, 637, 643
CIA and, 357
exposed as CIA agent, 285
letters from Svetlana, final years, 613–14, 615, 617, 618
offers of CIA support for Svetlana, 570–71, 575
Svetlana’s character described, 285
Svetlana’s defection and, 2–9, 275, 278, 279–84, 291, 305
visit to Svetlana (2006), 619
Reagan, Nancy, 493
Reagan, Ronald, 557
Redens, Anna Alliluyeva (aunt). See Alliluyeva, Anna
Redens, Stanislav (uncle), xv, 16, 65, 83, 90, 602–3, 632
arrest and execution, 84, 139, 660n21
Redlova, Olga, 305
Reed, John, 81, 526
Reinhardt, Ambassador, 276
Reminiscences (Anna Alliluyeva), 152
Renfrew, Lady Jane, 506, 510, 528, 642
Requiem (Akhmatov), 436, 683n13
Richardson, Emily, 506
Richardson, Rosamond, 506–8, 518–19, 594, 643
book written and Svetlana, 594–96, 643
description of Svetlana, 507–8
Rifkina, Olga, 107–9, 127, 128–29, 236, 601, 635
Robeson, Paul, 68
Rodionova, Arina, 24
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 352
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 125, 127, 494, 526
Rossing, Kathy, 610–11, 617, 620–21, 622, 642
Rostow, Walt, 294
Rostropovich, Mstislav, 485
Rozanova, Maria, 227–28, 229, 576, 634, 667n5
Svetlana’s return to the Soviet Union, theories about, 563
Rozhansky, Julia, 232
Runin, Boris, 218
Rusk, Dean, 276, 290, 292, 309
Russia and the West Under Lenin and Stalin (Kennan), 295
Russian Revolution, 14, 22, 24, 351
Alliluyev family and, 31–32
annual celebrations, 38–39, 40–41
fiftieth anniversary, 9, 290, 311, 327, 330, 343, 345
romanticizing of, 210
Svetlana’s defection and, 327
women’s sexuality and, 217–18
Russia’s Road from Peace to War: Soviet Foreign Relations 1917–1941 (Fischer), 361, 384
Ryzhkov, Nikolai, 541
Saint Antony’s College, Oxford, 334
Sakharov, Andrei, 444
Salisbury, Harrison, 379, 678n15
samizdat, 217, 233, 250, 305
Samoilov, David, 219–23, 353, 634, 635
Sanko, Vasily Fyodorovich (Fedorovich), 313–14, 639
Sapegin, Ivan, 98
Saturday Review, 385
Schakne, Bob, 319
Schifer, L., 379
Schlegel, Sharon, 474–75
Schlesinger, Arthur, 330, 343
Schwartz, Alan, 638
Svetlana in the US and, 340, 342, 357
Svetlana’s arrival in the US and, 310, 314, 317, 318–19
Svetlana’s book deal and, 298–99, 300, 306, 307
Svetlana’s charitable foundation and, 308, 477–78
Svetlana stays in Nantucket with, 340
Svetlana–Wesley Peters wedding and, 401–2
Secrest, Meryle, 392, 656n17
Sedgwik, Frances, 668n3
Semichastny, Vladimir, 316
Sergeev, Artyom (adopted brother), 18, 24, 54, 140, 202, 631
World War II and, 95, 97
Serov, I. A., 125–26
Shand, Philip, 433, 434, 436–37, 484, 485
Shand, Rosa
description of Svetlana, 435
friendship and correspondence with Svetlana, 134, 433–37, 438, 447, 479, 492, 493, 495–96, 497, 502, 506, 515, 569, 571, 575, 579, 587–88, 642, 670n1
in New York City, 483–88, 494
Oblomov (film) and Svetlana, 485–88
Svetlana’s return to the Soviet Union and, 549–50
Shekhar, Chandra, 244
Shevardnadze, Eduard, 541, 542
Shultz, George, 557
Shvernik, Lucia, 179
Sikmashvili, Leila, 543, 555, 689n3
Simonov, Konstantin, 113, 176–77, 189, 190, 205, 213–14
Simonov, Mikhail, 176
Singh, Brajesh (common-law husband), 4, 234, 241, 242–56, 315, 373, 398, 400, 253, 634, 639
ashes scattered on the Ganges, 263–64
background, 242, 263
cremation of, 256
death of, xvi, 255, 364
friends and relatives of, 263, 637
illness of, 243, 245, 247
letters intercepted, 244
meets Svetlana, 241–43, 668n3
Progress Publishers job, 249, 253–54, 255
Svetlana’s memoirs and, 253
Svetlana’s request for marriage to denied, xvi, 3, 247, 248–49, 250, 254, 319
terminal illness, 254–55
visa delayed, 244
Singh, Dinesh, 253, 256, 257, 261, 263, 266–67, 268, 269, 637
Singh, Reva, 263, 637
Singh, Suresh, 253, 263, 264, 265, 267, 269, 637
description of Svetlana, 265
Svetlana’s defection and, 287
Sinyavsky, Andrei, 8, 216, 217, 227–29, 344, 576, 634, 690n50
arrest and imprisonment, 250–51, 252, 294, 305–6, 348, 668n14, 668n17
Svetlana and, 216, 319, 348, 666n12, 667n5
Svetlana’s return to the Soviet Union, theories about, 563
work published abroad, 217
Smirnov, Nikolai, 261, 263
Smoluchowski, Roman, 440–41
Sochi dacha, 35, 59, 61, 65, 79
as World War II refuge, 94, 95
Yuri Zhdanov at, 161
Sokolovka dacha, 39
Solomentsev, Mikhail, 541
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 226–27, 343
Soviet Union. See also Communist Party; Moscow; specific places
abortion as birth control in, 44, 134
Afghanistan War and, 553, 562
amnesty for nonpolitical prisoners, 194, 196, 206–7
Anti-Cosmopolitan Campaign, xvi, 141–56, 160, 592, 636
anti-Semitism in, 129, 148–51, 175–77, 178, 332, 377, 603
arrests of writers and artists, 233, 250–51, 252, 294, 305–6, 348, 359, 362, 667n13
atomic bomb and, 140, 659n3
banning of art, music, literature in, 165, 216, 226, 233, 305
Brezhnev era of repression, 250–52, 253
Brezhnev heads, 247
child-raising in, 132–33
Christianity in, 229–30, 489
citizens trained to be obedient, 579
collapse of, 576, 613
consular convention with the US, 276–77
contact with foreigners as dangerous, 235–36
currency devaluation, 171
Czechoslovakia invaded by, 361–62
Dekulakization, 47, 69, 78, 78n
denunciations and repression, continuous, 163, 165, 177
de-Stalinization policy, 214, 226, 635
dissent in, 47
&n
bsp; dissidents in labor camps, 8
divorce as common in, 232
divorce proceedings in, 135
Doctors’ Plot, 175–78, 180–81, 182, 183, 194–96, 205, 592, 636, 662n48
education and schools, 66–70, 526
famine in the Ukraine, 47, 68
famines of the 1920s, 24, 36, 69
forced collectivization, 47, 69, 78, 602–3
fortieth anniversary of victory over the Nazis, 526
Georgia, 28, 31, 339 (see also Tbilisi, Georgia)
Georgia, student rioting in, 226, 376
government of (1984), 526–27
Great Terror, xv, 76–88, 351, 436, 635, 636, 654n9, 654n10, 654n28
Gulag, xv, 47, 78, 122, 193, 193, 194, 196, 206, 227, 339, 348, 359
Gulag, orphans in, 218
hospitals in, 241–42
Hungarian uprising, 226, 376
Iron Curtain of, 140
Israel and, 149–50
Kennan in, 131, 178, 293
Khrushchev and the Thaw (post-Stalin era), 205, 216–17, 226, 241, 244, 247, 250
Khrushchev deposed, 247
Kuibyshev as Russian capital, 100–101, 102, 110
mourning customs, 188
murder of human rights activist in, 605
NCOs and human rights, 617, 695n23
Olga Peters’s observations, 533
as paradox, 339–40
policies of glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring), 563, 566, 639
pride of Russian people, 598
purge of the army, 82
under Putin, 616–17
Russian understanding of friendship, 513
Sakharov’s Nobel Peace Prize and, 444
show trials in, 80–81, 650n3
Stalin’s death and, 188–90, 193
Stalin’s Order 270, 98
state ownership of private property, 15
Svetlana’s citizenship stripped by, 385
Svetlana’s criticism of, 374–77
Svetlana’s defection and, 289–90, 312
Svetlana’s press conference following return to Russia, 525–26
Svetlana’s return, 520, 520–59
symbolic dreams, prophetic signs, 486–87
“a thaw,” meaning of, 226
third world war with the West, rumors of, 177–78
trait of Soviet psychology, 493
travel restrictions in, 342, 387
treatment of defectors, 8
Ukraine, purges in, 84, 212
US and, 140–41
US citizens traveling in, 277
US war aid to, 131
Vorkuta prison, Siberia, 122
World War II and, 92–95, 97–98, 99–102, 124–25
Writers’ Plot, 176–77
Zhdanov Doctrine, 165, 216, 636
Soviet Women’s National Committee, 520, 522–23, 525
Speak, Memory (Nabokov), 503
Spring Green, Wisconsin
Olga Peters in, 589, 606
Svetlana living in, 561, 565–67
Svetlana’s return to US and final years in, 606, 608, 608–23
Taliesin East in, 408–9, 419, 421
Staehelin, William, 306
Stalin, Joseph (Joseph “Soso” Vissarionovich Djugashvili) (father), 465, 631
adopted name Stalin (“steel”), 631
all-night drinking and, 111, 135–36, 181
Anti-Cosmopolitan Campaign, 141–56, 160, 592
anti-Semitism of, 97, 121, 130, 148–51, 175–77, 178
appearance, 352
betrayal of friends and family, 81–88, 84–85, 87, 98, 139, 139, 141–48, 186, 239, 603
birth of, 19–20, 545, 648n11
boyhood and schooling, 18–19
brutality of, xv–xvi, xviii, 19, 45–46, 186
children, treatment of, 26
Christianity and, 229
code name Soso, 16
collective condemnation, system of, 251
controlling nature of, 137–38
cult of personality, 66–67, 165–66, 212, 214, 418
death of, 178, 179–90, 537, 663–64n23
deformed arm, webbed toes, 35
dekulakization campaign, 78, 78n
description of, by Milovan Djilas, 352–53
Doctors’ Plot, 175–78, 180–81, 182, 183, 592, 636, 662n48
execution of Bukharin, 34
executions and purges, 35, 36, 40, 51, 53, 75–88
famous 1935 pronouncement, 69
fear of poisoning, 157–58, 174
films and, 64, 180
first marriage to Ekaterina “Kato” Svanidze and her death, 16–17, 17, 633
frugality of, 188
Georgian roots of, 27–28, 545
gold in Swiss banks rumor, 309, 394, 673n27
grave of, 525
Great Terror and, xv, 76–88, 436, 584–85, 654n9, 654n10, 654n28
the Gulag and, xv, 47, 78, 193
Gurdjieff and, 390
hatred of, 40, 190, 212
Hitler and, 93, 94
Kholodnaya Rechka dacha, with Svetlana, 135–36
Khrushchev’s Secret Speech and, 211–13
Kirov’s assassination and, 77–78
“Koba” as revolutionary name 631
Kuntsevo dacha, 57–59, 65, 75, 76, 84, 92, 93, 100, 106, 132, 157, 162, 170, 172–75, 179–88, 237–38, 538
Law of December 1 signed by (mass repression begins), 77
Lysenko Affair and, 161–62
Mikhoels murder and, 148–49, 660n25, 660n29
ministers and officials of, 635–36
misogyny of, 91
mother of, 18–19, 19, 54, 65–66
Nadya Alliluyeva, letters to, 46, 48, 650n15
Nadya Alliluyeva, marriage to, 22, 27, 43, 44, 45–50, 238–39
Nadya Alliluyeva, suicide of, 41–44, 50–54, 155–56, 173
Order 227, 126
Order 270, 98
paranoia of, 44, 147, 186, 216
pet parrot killed by, 592
philandering by, 41
Politburo rehabilitation of image, 526, 527
routine of, 135, 180, 181
secretary, Tovstukha, 648n11
security measures and, 40, 58, 650n3
singing voice of, 35
Sochi dacha, 35, 59, 61, 65, 84
son Vasili and, 55, 58, 62, 65, 65, 71, 91, 110, 140
son Yakov and, 27–28, 98–99, 125–26, 657–58n4
state control of possessions, image, 204
Svetlana, correspondence with, 59, 61–62, 71, 90–91, 100–101, 133, 151, 166–67, 169–70, 173–74
Svetlana, last encounter with, 173–75, 662n40
Svetlana, surveillance of, 115, 121
Svetlana-Kapler relationship and, 117, 118, 120–21, 122
Svetlana’s adolescence and, 90–91, 100–102, 104, 106–7, 126–27
Svetlana’s awareness of his crimes, 123, 156, 374–76
Svetlana’s childhood and, 27, 36, 55, 55–65, 65, 72, 73, 85, 86, 438, 494–95
Svetlana’s children and, 132, 133, 158, 166–67, 172–73, 213
Svetlana’s contentiousness with, 159–60
Svetlana’s emotional dependence on, 166–67
Svetlana’s marriage to Morozov and, 130, 131, 133, 134, 135, 158
Svetlana’s marriage to Yuri Zhdanov and, 160–62, 168–71
Svetlana’s memories of, 592, 593
as symbol, 140
travel disliked by, 92
United States and, 140
volatility of, 46, 47, 50, 155
as vozhd, and mythic status, xv, 39, 40, 64, 84, 352
World War II and, 92–102, 655n10
Zubalovo dacha and, 28–35, 43, 56, 61, 84, 97, 110, 122, 123, 131
Stalin, Vasili “Vasya” (brother), xvi, 13, 18, 20, 21, 28, 46, 602, 631
alcohol problem, 72, 201, 230
anti-Semitism, 603
betrayal by, 74
birth of
, 15
character and personality, 70–71, 73, 111, 112
death of, 230
fate after Stalin’s death, 200–201
first wife, Galina, 100, 110, 111
influence of his name, 71–72, 73
Kapler and, 112
Morozov as friend of, 129
mother Nadya’s suicide and, 52, 53, 54, 56, 72
punishment for Kapler affair, 122
schooling of, 66, 73
second wife, Katya Timoshenko, 535
son of, 534–35, 538, 633 (see also Burdonsky, Alexander)
Stalin and, 55, 58, 62, 65, 65, 71, 91, 110, 140
Stalin’s death and, 184–85, 189
Svetlana and, 72–73, 111, 135
third wife, Kapitolina, 201
World War II and, 95, 97–98, 110, 110–11
at Zubalovo dacha compound, 110, 111, 112–13, 122
Stalina, Galina, 100, 110, 111
Stalina, Nadezhda “Nadya” Alliluyeva (mother), 20–28, 512, 536, 631, 636
as absent from Svetlana’s life, 25
appearance, 40, 50
birth of, 209
birth of son, 15
birth of Svetlana, 15
final words to Svetlana, 39
grave of, 52, 525
in Leningrad, 209–10
letters to Stalin, 46, 48, 650n15
life in the Kremlin, 18, 22–23, 25
marriage to Stalin, 22, 27, 43, 44, 45–50, 238–39
opposition to Stalin’s policies and, 47–50, 650n12
pistol owned by, 42, 45, 65, 103
resting in state and funeral, 51–53, 53
Russian Revolution and, 45–46
Sochi vacations, 35
suicide of, xv, 39–45, 50–51, 103, 152, 155–56, 210, 238, 582, 596–97, 602, 650n7, 651n34, 656n17, 656n30
with Svetlana, 38
Stalin: A Political Biography (Deutscher), 376
Starovoitova, Galina, 605, 694n11
State Bank of the USSR, 81
Station Master, The (film), 179–80
Stefansson, Pamela, 421, 530
Stern, Lena, 177
Stern magazine, 330–31, 346, 639
“Mother Is a Little Bit Screwed Up” article, 330–31
“Secret Album of Stalin’s Daughter” article, 330
stolen photos published in, 330
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan law firm, 420–21
Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart, 437–38, 479–81, 568
Sulzberger, Arthur, 301, 334
Surov, Second Secretary, 260, 263, 266, 268, 269–70
Suslov, Mikhail, 254–55
Svanidze, Alexander “Alyosha” (uncle), xv, 16, 17, 22, 29, 65, 633
arrest of, 81
execution of, 87–88, 230
posthumous exoneration of, 88
yurts brought to Zubalovo, 92, 230, 231
Svanidze, Ekaterina “Kato” (Stalin’s first wife), 16–17, 17, 633
Svanidze, Johnreed “Johnik” Ivan (third husband), xv, 81, 230–31, 633–34
arrest of parents, 81
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