ALLILUYEVA, SVETLANA

svyĕtläˈnä äl-lĕlooˈyəvə, 1926–, only daughter of the Soviet Communist leader Joseph Stalin and his second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva. After her father's death (1953), she was a teacher and translator in the Soviet Union. In late 1966, while in India, she defected to the West. She left a grown son and daughter from two earlier marriages in the Soviet Union. She settled in the United States in Apr., 1967, and published her memoirs, Twenty Letters to a Friend, (1967), and later Only One Year (1969). Becoming a U.S. citizen, she married (1970) an American architect, William Peters, but separated from him after having given birth to a daughter. She returned to the Soviet Union in 1984 and settled in Tbilisi. In 1986 she again left the USSR, returned to the United States, and during the 1990s settled in England.

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books on: Alliluyeva Svetlana  - 55 results

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Stalin: An Unknown Portrait
Book by Miklós Kun; Central European University Press, 2003
Subjects: Heads Of State--Soviet Union--Biography, Soviet Union--Politics And Government--1917-1936, Soviet Union--Politics And Government--1936-1953, Stalin, Joseph--1879-1953
...43? 438, 440-444, 447 Alliluyeva, Kira 181-184, 183, 186...383, 391, 433, 437, 443 Alliluyeva, Nadezhda xv, 148, 183...422, 426, 431,433,439 Alliluyeva, Svetlana 13, 18, 20, 46, 92, 119...
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The Lesser Terror: Soviet State Security, 1939-1953
Book by Michael Parrish; Praeger, 1996
Subjects: Political Purges--Soviet Union--History, Secret Service--Soviet Union--History, Soviet Union--Politics And Government--1936-1953
...M., 249 Alikhanian, G.S., 309 Alksnis, Ia.Ia., 42 Alliluev, P., 213 Alliluyeva, E.A., 204 , 212 Alliluyeva, M., 203 Alliluyeva, Svetlana, 20 - 21 , 208 , 237 , 243 , 268 Alshibai, M., 320 Alter, V.I., 60 , 200...
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Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941
Book by Robert C. Tucker; W.W. Norton, 1992
Subjects: Heads Of State--Soviet Union--Biography, Soviet Union--Politics And Government--1917-1936, Soviet Union--Politics And Government--1936-1953, Stalin, Joseph--1879-1953
...437 , 530 Alliluyev, Pavel, 216 -17 Alliluyeva, Anna, 475 Alliluyeva, Nadezhda, 7 marriage of, 215 -16 suicide of, 216 -17 Alliluyeva, Svetlana, 164 , 216 , 217 , 330 , 472 , 538-39...
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The Korean War: Handbook of the Literature and Research
Book by Lester H. Brune, Robin Higham; Greenwood Press, 1996
Subjects: Korean War, 1950-1953
...Stalin was "Europe First" as much as U.S. policy was "Europe First." REFERENCES Alliluyeva Svetlana. Twenty Letters to a Friend by Svetlana Alliluyeva . Trans. Priscilla Johnson McMillan . New York: Harper Row, 1967.
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The Great Terror: A Reassessment
Book by Robert Conquest; Oxford University Press, 1991
Subjects: Soviet Union--Politics And Government--1936-1953, Stalin, Joseph--1879-1953, Terrorism--Soviet Union
...Ya. I. Army Commander , 185 , 202 , 208 , 213 , 420 Alliluyev, Paul, 58 Alliluyeva, Nadezhda Stalins second wife , suicide of, 29 , 58 Alliluyeva, Svetlana, 43 n, 75 n Alter, Viktor, 449 -50, 475 "ALZHIR," 315 Amatouni, 226...
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journal articles on: Alliluyeva Svetlana  - 4 results

 
 
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A Perspective on History: The Soviet System Reconsidered
Journal article by Theodore Von Laue; The Historian, Vol. 61, 1999
Subjects: Communism--History, Lenin, Vladimir I.--Political activity, National security--Russia, Russia--History, Stalin, Joseph--Political activity, Totalitarianism--Russia
...10) And Stalins daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, complained in 1963, "No...birthday in 1949, his daughter Svetlana heard him say about the guests...York, 1991), xvi. (11) Svetlana Alliluyeva, Twenty Letters to a Friend...
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Stalin's Loss and Shame
Journal article by Juhani Ihanus; The Journal of Psychohistory, Vol. 35, 2007
...throughout the whole of the Soviet Union. His daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva (1967, p. 203) mentioned that in the late-1940s...although he still continued his misogynist cursing (Alliluyeva 1969, pp. 363, 381). Stephanie Shakhirevas article...
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"The Road to Stalin": Mandelstam's Ode to Stalin and "the Lines on the Unknown Soldier"
Journal article by Tony Brinkley; Shofar, Vol. 21, 2003
Subjects: Jews, Literature, Poetry, Politics
...World War II, Stalin once said to his daughter: "Together with the Germans we would have been invincible" (Svetlana Alliluyeva, Only One Year, trans. P. Chavchavadze New York, 1969, p. 392). According to Robert Tucker, what Stalin...
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Why America Has Not Seemed like Exile
Journal article by Stephen J. Whitfield; Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. 41, 2002
Subjects: Culture, Diaspora, Jews, United States
...United States in 1967, the daughter of Joseph Stalin explained that she was tired of her "grim" compatriots; Svetlana Alliluyeva had experienced enough of "pessimism."50 Walt Disney claimed to have dedicated himself to providing happiness...


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Elemental Pleasures
Magazine article by Robert Cullen; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 274, August 1994
Subjects: Russia--Description and travel, Seaside resorts--Russia
...Politburo member and the former son-in-law of Josef Stalin (he was the second husband of Stalins daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva), established a summer camp there for teachers and students. In 1959 the state built the road from Novorossisk...


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newspaper articles on: Alliluyeva Svetlana  - 3 results

 
 
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Tomorrow's Opponents
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), February 5, 2010
...estuary include Wallace and Gromit who were created there, funny man Matt Lucas studied there, Stalins daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva once lived there and Sir Humphry Davy, the scientist who discovered laughing gas was from there. Bad times...
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Plaza Sweetie
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), November 14, 2004
...for the movie The Prince And The Showgirl-Other notable Press conferences at The Plaza include the one given by Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalins daughter, who announced her defection from Russia at the hotel. Woody Allen also chose The Plaza...
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Where Hollywood Takes a Bye
Newspaper article by Arnold Beichman; The Washington Times, October 7, 2001
...Party was full of horror and inhumanity: the Moscow trials, the Gulag, Solzhenitsyn, the flight to the West of Svetlana Alliluyeva, Josef Stalins daughter, the mystery of Stalins death, the Tito heresy, the Berlin blockade and airlift, the...


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encyclopedia articles on: Alliluyeva Svetlana  - 3 results

 
 
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Alliluyeva, Svetlana
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ALLILUYEVA, SVETLANA svyetla na al-leloo y v , 1926 , only daughter of the Soviet Communist leader Joseph Stalin and his second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva. After her fathers death (1953), she was a teacher and translator...
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Stalin, Joseph Vissarionovich
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...both wives died (the second, Nadezhda Sergeyevna Alliluyeva, by suicide in 1932). Yakov, his son by his first...air force before his death in 1962. His daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva , defected to the United States in 1967. Denunciation...
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...economist Viktor Krasin; retired general Petro Grigorenko; and the historian Pyotr Yakir. Stalins daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva , defected to the West in 1967 and took up residence in the United States. From the later 1960s many Jews asked...


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