ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1967
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Posveta na naslovnoj, zaštitni omot kao na slici, inače u dobrom stanju.

Hardcver.Harper & Row, 1967, First Edition, 8vo, 246 pages.

Par meseci po dolasku u SAD, Alelujeva je objavila knjigu o životu u Sovjetskom Savuzu pod imenom `Dvadeset pisama prijatelju`, koja je odmah postala bestseler. Alelujeva je u Sovjetskom Savezu ostavila dvoje dece iz prva dva braka, Josipa i Jekaterinu. Uprkos kasnijim pokušajima da se zbliži s njima, oni su to odbijali.

Beg Staljinove ćerke iz Sovjetskog Saveza u jeku hladnog rata širom sveta je odjeknuo kao bomba, pogotovo što je ostavila svoje dvoje dece. Alelujeva je dobila dozvolu da 1966. godine ode u Indiju, da bi tamo odnela pepeo svog trećeg muža Briješa Singa. Umesto da se posle polaganja urne vrati, ona je iznenadila čuvare i ušla u ambasadu SAD u Nju Delhiju, gde je zatražila politički azil.

Kada je imala šest godina, Svetlani je umrla majka i podigla ju je dadilja. Bila je jedina Staljinova ćerka, a imala je braću Vasilija i Jakova. Jakova su Nemci zarobili 1941. godine i umro je u jednom koncentracionom logoru, a Vasilij je umro 40. godini. Alelujeva se udavala četiri puta, poslednji put u Americi za Vilijama Pitersa, kada je zvanično promenilaime u Lana Piters.

In this riveting, New York Times-bestselling memoir first published by Harper in 1967 Svetlana Alliluyeva, subject of Rosemary Sullivan s critically acclaimed biography, Stalin s Daughter, describes the surreal experience of growing up in the Kremlin in the shadow of her father, Joseph Stalin. Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva, later known as Lana Peters, was the youngest child and only daughter of Joseph Stalin and Nadezhda Alliluyeva, his second wife. In 1967, she fled the Soviet Union for India, where she approached the U.S. Embassy for asylum. Once there, she showed her CIA handler something remarkable: A personal memoir about growing up inside the Kremlin that she`d written in 1963. The Indian Ambassador to the USSR, whom she`d befriended, had smuggled the manuscript out of the Soviet Union the previous year and returned it to her as soon as she arrived in India. Structured as a series of letters to a friend Svetlana refused to identify him, but we now know it was her close friend, Fyodor Volkenstein this astounding memoir exposes the dark human heart of the Kremlin. After opening with Stalin s death, Svetlana returns to her childhood. Each letter adds a new strand to her remarkable story; some are wistful romanticized recollections of her early years and her family while others are desperate exorcisms of the tragedies that plagued her, such as her mother s suicide and her father s increasing cruelty. It is also in some ways a love letter to Russia, with its ancient heritage and spectacularly varied geography. Candid, surprising, and utterly compelling, Twenty Letters to a Friend offers one of the most revealing portraits of life inside Stalin s inner circle, and of the notorious dictator himself.

memoari staljinove ćerke, staljin, antikomunistički klasik