Edition: First Canadian edition.

Description:

• digital files : .PDF, .txt
• data file

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Restricted to use by people with documented print impairment.
• Produced by the National Network for Equitable Library Service (NNELS).
• Vancouver, B.C. : BC Libraries Cooperative, 2015.
• Toronto, Ontario : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, [2015]
• Original version : xviii, 741 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. 9781443414425
• Mode of access: World wide web

Contents:

• Family tree
• Preface: Stalin's daughter
• The defection
• Part I: The Kremlin years. That place of sunshine ; A motherless child ; The hostess and the peasant ; The terror ; The circle of secrets and lies ; Love story ; A Jewish wedding ; The anti-cosmopolitan campaign ; Everything silent, as before a storm ; The death of the Vozhd
• Part II: The Soviet reality. The ghosts return ; The Generalissimo's daughter ; Post-thaw ; The gentle Brahmin ; On the banks of the Ganges
• Part III: Flight to America. Italian comic opera ; Diplomatic fury ; Attorneys at work ; The arrival ; A mysterious figure ; Letters to a friend ; "Scoundrely" behavior ; Only one year ; The Taliesin fiasco ; The Montenegran's courtier ; Stalin's Daughter cutting the grass ; A KGB stool-pigeon ; Lana Peters, American citizen ; The modern jungle of freedom
• Part IV: Learning to live in the West. Chaucer Road ; Back in the USSR ; Tbilisi interlude ; The American reality ; Never wear a tight skirt if you intend to commit suicide ; My dear, they haven't changed a bit ; Final return.

Control Number: 1515638

Subjects:

• Allilueva, Svetlana, 1926-2011.
• Children of heads of state -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
• Defectors -- United States -- Biography.
• Immigrants -- United States -- Biography.
• Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953 -- Biography.
• Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 -- Family.
• Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953 -- Influence.

Genre: Biographies.

Other Authors: BC Libraries Cooperative. National Network for Equitable Library Service.