Only One Year
Author(s): Svetlana Alliluyeva

Among the great Russian autobiographical works: Herzen, Kropotkin, TolstoysConfession. Edmund Wilson,The New Yorker

After the success of her New York Timesbestselling childhood memoir Twenty Letters to a Friend, Josef Stalins daughter Svetlana Alliluyevasubject of Rosemary Sullivans critically acclaimed biography Stalins Daughterpenned this riveting account of her year-long journey to defect from the USSR and start a new life in America.

The story of Only One Year begins on December 19, 1966, as Svetlana Alliluyeva leaves Russia for India, on a one-month visa, in the custody of an employee of the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It ends on December 19, 1967, in Princeton, New Jersey, as she and two American friends join in a toast to her new life of freedom.

That year of pain, discovery, turmoil, and new hope reaches its climax with her decision to break completely from the world of Communism, to turn her back on her country, her children, and the legacy of her notorious fatherJoseph Stalin. Why did she make such a drastic choice? This book, a detailed account of reality in the USSR, is her explanation.

Frank, fascinating, and thoroughly engrossing, Only One Year reveals life behind the Iron Curtain, the risks and subterfuge of defection, and one extraordinary womans fight for her future.

Review(s):
Among the great Russian autobiographical works: Herzen, Kropotkin, Tolstoys My Confession.
Its a rich and absorbing book that could be endlessly quoted, bya woman who stands free in the sunlight.

ISBN:9780062442628