Svetlana Alliluyeva

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Svetlana Alliluyeva was a Soviet-born writer and defector best known as the only daughter of Joseph Stalin, whose memoirs and high-profile departure to the West offered rare personal insights into the Soviet leader and his regime.


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instanceOf Soviet defector
human
memoirist
writer
alsoKnownAs Lana Peters
Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva
birthName Svetlana Iosifovna Stalina
causeOfDeath colon cancer
child Olga Peters
Yakov Morozov
Yekaterina Zhdanova
countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
United States
dateOfBirth 1926-02-28
dateOfDeath 2011-11-22
defectedFrom Soviet Union
defectedTo United States
educatedAt Moscow State University
father Joseph Stalin
fieldOfStudy history
literature
gender female
genre autobiography
memoir
languageOfWorkOrName English
Russian
mother Nadezhda Alliluyeva
name Svetlana Alliluyeva
notableEvent defection to the United States in 1967
notableFor being the only daughter of Joseph Stalin
publishing memoirs about Joseph Stalin and Soviet leadership
notableWork Daughter of the Kremlin
Faraway Music
Only One Year
The Faraway Music: A Memoir of My Father, Joseph Stalin
Twenty Letters to a Friend
numberOfChildren 3
occupation teacher
translator
writer
placeOfBirth Moscow
Russian SFSR
Soviet Union
placeOfDeath Richland Center, Wisconsin
United States
religion Hinduism
Roman Catholic Church
Russian Orthodox Church
residence Cambridge, England
Princeton, New Jersey
Wisconsin
sibling Vasily Stalin
Yakov Dzhugashvili
spouse Grigory Morozov
Ivan Svanidze
William Wesley Peters
Yuri Zhdanov


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