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Jun 06, 2015 stalins daughter by rosemary sullivan. Sullivan s narrative and analysis is thoughtful and reasoned and by the conclusion of her 623 page effort the reader will feel they have entered a surreal world that explored not. She was fortyone years old and wore an elegant white double. How joseph stalins only daughter ended up in wisconsin. With access to kgb, cia, and soviet government archives, as well as the close cooperation of svetlanas daughter, rosemary sullivan pieces together svetlanas incredible life in a masterful account of unprecedented intimacy. This book is a wonderfully written account of the life of svetlana alliluyeva, stalin s one and only daughter.
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Sullivan does a nice job of conveying her subjects point of. The extraordinary and tumultuous life of svetlana alliluyeva by rosemary sullivan a child both petted and coldly dominated by one of historys most brutal dictators, svetlana alliluyevas life would veer between passion and loneliness. A principal virtue ofsullivans empathetic stalins daughter is the vivid sense it offers of alliluyeva. Rosemary sullivan is the author of stalin s daughter 3. Stalins daughter is a poignant look at the struggles of a dictators offspring. But with rosemary sullivan s remarkable new biography, stalins daughter. By this point in the book, we feel locked into a plot as subterranean and relentless as that of a hitchcock film.
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The extraordinary and tumultuous life of svetlana alliluyeva by rosemary sullivan available from rakuten kobo. Stalin s daughter is a work of narrative nonfiction on a grand scale, combining popular history and biography to tell the incredible story of a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of historys most monstrous dictators. Sullivan does a nice job of conveying her subjects point of view without accepting it as the last word. Sullivan was born in the small town of valois on lac saintlouis, just outside montreal, quebec. Winner of the plutarch award for best biographypen literary award finalistnational book critics. The awardwinning author of villa airbel returns with a painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of svetlana stalin, a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of historys most monstrous dictatorsher father, josef stalin. Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders. Jun 02, 2015 in her research for stalin s daughter, rosemary sullivan had the full cooperation of svetlana s american daughter, olga.
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