Only One Year (e-bog) af Alliluyeva, Svetlana
Alliluyeva, Svetlana (forfatter)

Only One Year e-bog

97,26 DKK (inkl. moms 121,58 DKK)
Among the great Russian autobiographical works: Herzen, Kropotkin, TolstoysConfession. Edmund Wilson,The New YorkerAfter the success of her New York Timesbestselling childhood memoir Twenty Letters to a Friend, Josef Stalins daughter Svetlana Alliluyevasubject of Rosemary Sullivans critically acclaimed biography Stalins Daughterpenned this riveting account of her year-long journey to defect fro...
E-bog 97,26 DKK
Forfattere Alliluyeva, Svetlana (forfatter)
Udgivet 24 januar 2017
Længde 464 sider
Genrer 1DTA
Sprog English
Format epub
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9780062442635
Among the great Russian autobiographical works: Herzen, Kropotkin, TolstoysConfession. Edmund Wilson,The New YorkerAfter the success of her New York Timesbestselling childhood memoir Twenty Letters to a Friend, Josef Stalins daughter Svetlana Alliluyevasubject of Rosemary Sullivans critically acclaimed biography Stalins Daughterpenned this riveting account of her year-long journey to defect from the USSR and start a new life in America.The story of Only One Year begins on December 19, 1966, as Svetlana Alliluyeva leaves Russia for India, on a one-month visa, in the custody of an employee of the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It ends on December 19, 1967, in Princeton, New Jersey, as she and two American friends join in a toast to her new life of freedom. That year of pain, discovery, turmoil, and new hope reaches its climax with her decision to break completely from the world of Communism, to turn her back on her country, her children, and the legacy of her notorious fatherJoseph Stalin. Why did she make such a drastic choice? This book, a detailed account of reality in the USSR, is her explanation.Frank, fascinating, and thoroughly engrossing, Only One Year reveals life behind the Iron Curtain, the risks and subterfuge of defection, and one extraordinary womans fight for her future.