Stalin's daughter: the extraordinary and tumultuous life of Svetlana Alliluyeva

The Djugashvili and Alliluyev family trees ; Preface ; Prologue: The defection

Part One: The Kremlin years. That place of sunshine ; A motherless child ; The hostess and the peasant ; The terror ; The circle of secrets and lies ; Love story ; A Jewish wedding ; The anti-cosmopolitan campaign ; Everything silent, as before a storm ; The death of the Vozhd

Part Two: The Soviet reality. The ghosts return ; The generalissimo's daughter ; Post-thaw ; The gentle brahmin ; On the banks of the Ganges

Part Three: Flight to America. Italian comic opera ; Diplomatic fury ; Attorneys at work ; The arrival ; A mysterious figure ; Letters to a friend ; A cruel rebuff ; Only one year ; The Taliesin fiasco ; The Montenegran's courtier ; Stalin's daughter cutting the grass ; A KGB stool pigeon ; Lana Peters, American citizen ; The modern jungle of freedom

Part Four: Learning to Live in the West. Chaucer Road ; Back in the USSR ; Tbilisi interlude ; American reality ; "Never wear a tight skirt if you intend to commit suicide" ; My dear, they haven't changed a bit ; Final return

Acknowledgments

List of characters

Sources

Notes

Bibliography

Illustration credits

Index.