Stalin's Daughter

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The incredible story of a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history's most monstrous dictators. "Stalin's Daughter" is a work of narrative nonfiction on a grand scale. Svetlana Stalina's lifestory was more sensational than a Hollywood film, and forever shadowed by brutal tyranny and war. Svetlana Stalina's is a private life and yet it is also the story of the 20th century. No matter how many ways she tried, Svetlana could never escape her role as Stalin's daughter. She spent the first forty years of her life trapped within the gilded cage of the Kremlin; while she lived through the nightmares of mass starvation and the purges of millions, she was protected from that reality by the elitist, stifling world of Communist Party privilege. It could not save her from high drama and devastating loss in her personal life. The truth about her mother's violent death was hidden from her till she happened upon it at 16. Her first lover, a man twice her age, was exiled by her...