Remote Melodies: A Stalin's Daughter's Journey to America

Author: Svetlana Alliluyeva
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Publication Date: 2001-09-01
Features: In 1967, Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Stalin, fled the Soviet Union to the United States, causing a sensation around the world. In the United States, an unhappy marriage brought her a decade-long life as a single mother, where she experienced the coldness of American society—loneliness, poverty, depression, anxiety, and disappointment. This book is the author's latest work following Letters to a Friend and Only One Year. It offers a unique and in-depth observation and reflection on American society, as well as a delicate portrayal of her complex inner world: she moved from a communist country to a capitalist one, her identity shifting from "princess" to "fugitive."