Daughter of the Kremlin

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Daughter of the Kremlin is a memoir by Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin’s daughter, recounting her life inside the Soviet leadership’s inner circle and her eventual break with the regime.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
memoir
author Svetlana Alliluyeva
Svetlana Alliluyeva
surface form: Svetlana Stalina
countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
describes Joseph Stalin’s family life
Soviet political elite
Soviet propaganda
Soviet secret police climate of fear
Stalin’s domestic life
Stalin’s personality
Svetlana Alliluyeva’s break with the Soviet regime
Svetlana Alliluyeva’s childhood
Svetlana Alliluyeva’s decision to leave the USSR
Svetlana Alliluyeva’s disillusionment with communism
Svetlana Alliluyeva’s family relationships
Svetlana Alliluyeva’s youth
inner workings of the Kremlin
life inside the Soviet leadership’s inner circle
privileges of the Soviet ruling class
repression under Stalin
genre autobiography
political memoir
hasTheme conflict between private life and state ideology
family and power
ideological disillusionment
life under Stalin
political repression
totalitarianism
language English
Russian
literaryForm prose
mainSubject Joseph Stalin
Soviet Union
Svetlana Alliluyeva
narrativeForm retrospective account
narrativePerspective first-person
portrays Joseph Stalin as a dictator
Joseph Stalin as a father
setting Moscow Kremlin
surface form: Kremlin

Moscow
Soviet Union
timePeriodCovered Stalin era
early Soviet period
workAbout Joseph Stalin’s inner circle
Soviet leadership
Stalin family

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Svetlana Alliluyeva notableWork Daughter of the Kremlin