Stalin's Daughter - The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva

Who was Svetlana Alliluyeva? A little girl, her father's only daughter, his little sparrow instructed to bury her secrets in her heart by her mother, who shot herself soon after. An observer as her relatives were mercilessly killed and her first love exiled. A woman who tore through relationships with men, joined and abandoned various religions, and became the most famous defector to the United States.The victim of an inescapable truth: You are Stalin's daughter... You can't live your own life. You can't live any life. You exist only in reference to a name.'