The Long Shadow. Inside Stalin's Family

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Little, Brown
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 1993
Edition: First Edition

Description: 308 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very Good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: When Joseph Stalin married Nadya Alliluyeva in 1918 he had known her parents for many years. They had all been in the underground movement together before the Bolshevik Revolution, and the idealistic Alliluyevs had no inkling then of the fate that their new relative would inflict on the family. - THE LONG SHADOW follows four generations of Alliluyevs from the 1860s to the present day, mainly in their own words, showing how the sins of the fathers reach down over the centuries. Author and interviewer Rosamond Richardson links the human story with its political background, telling a powerful tale of struggle, revolution, tragedy and survival. Her book brilliantly recreates the atmosphere of the times - Russia on the brink of change, then hurled into the horror of the one-party system and the rule of an autocrat who governed by fear.Interviews with the Alliluyevs offer exclusive and intriguing insights into Stalins character, throwing light on the psychological forces that lead him to perpetrate his legendary deeds. For the first time they speak frankly about their belief that Stalin was murdered; how the suicide of his second wife may have triggered the dreadful purges of the 1930s; and his nephews movingly describe the return home of their mothers - Stalins sisters-in-law - after years of solitary confinement.An invaluable addition to the Stalin archive, THE LONG SHADOW also unfolds a psychological drama that has been experienced in its own way by millions of families not only in Russia, but anywhere in the world where people live under oppression, on whatever scale. And the curse the shadow still touches the family with personal tragedy today. Rosamond Richardson goes straight to the heart of this dark, powerful story, parts of which defy belief.

ISBN: 9780316905534