La hija de Stalin

Born during the early years of the Soviet Union, Svetlana grew up within the Kremlin walls. The high officials of the Communist Party protected her from abroad, hiding from her the famine and the purges that were sweeping her country. After her father's death, and as she discovered the magnitude of the regime's cruelty, Svetlana broke her silence and in 1967 she shocked the world by fleeing to the United States.Deep and ambitious, this biography paints an unlikely portrait of a tormented woman, used as a pawn in the Cold War and who, despite her repeated attempts to disassociate herself from the past, was forever caught in the long shadow of her father. Sullivan manages to explore a complex character in an even more complex context without ever losing sight of the powerful human story, and in the process reopening the closed doors of the brutal history of the short 20th century that so fascinates us.