Comments on "Stalin's Daughter - The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva" by Rosemary Sullivan
This book has about 632 pages of text plus about an additional 124 pages of family trees, preface, acknowledgements, list of characters{there are as many as 117}, sources, notes, bibliography, illustration credits, and index.
Besides that, roughly the first 190 pages contain a great deal of information about Joseph Stalin in the years leading up to his death in 1953. More information about the Bolsheviks and the soviet government continues for another 80, or more, pages until Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to America at the American embassy in India in 1967.
The author, Rosemary Sullivan, obviously has done an enormous amount of research and work, but her North American point of view, with its peculiarities, shows through nonetheless.
Is it fair to also point out that Rosemary Sullivan apparently did not think about writing a biography of Svetlana Alliluyeva until long after Svetlana's four books were published in 1967, 1969, 1984, and 1991; and after she had died in 2011?
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