When a nondescript Russian woman turned up at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi on an ordinary Monday evening near the height of the Cold War, no one but she realized the import of what was happening. All ...

Gerard DeGroot is a professor of history at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. His latest book is “Back in Blighty: The British at Home in World War One.” Stalin’s Daughter By Rosemary ...

"This book is not the work of a sensationalist or a traitor. It is wrung from an agonized conscience and a sickened heart." When Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., visited Moscow last summer, he found the ...

In 2006 Nicholas Thompson began writing letters to Svetlana Alliluyeva and continued until she died in 2011. Svetlana Stalin, and it looks like a ransom note. It's kind of wild, there are dots, ...

“Wherever I go, whether to Australia or some island, I will always be the political prisoner of my father’s name.” Such was the lament of Svetlana Alliluyeva, whose life sentence it was to be the only ...

She was not the usual sort of leggy glamour girl who is ordinarily greeted by photographers when landing at Kennedy Airport. Her hair was bobbed a trifle close, her figure was a trifle stout, and her ...

On the homepage today, I conclude my (brief) tour of sons-in-law, inspired by the unusual relationship between President Trump and Jared Kushner. Every son-in-law, and every father-in-law, should have ...

Failing (flailing?) Republican presidential candidate Gov. Jon Huntsman (R-Utah) is not only saddled with a general lack of charisma and interesting policies but with his daughters. Much to the ...

When a nondescript Russian woman turned up at the US Embassy in New Delhi on an ordinary Monday evening near the height of the Cold War, no one but she realised the import of what was happening. All ...

It’s all there, right on the cover: little Svetlana, about 6 or 7 years old, her head twisted, just a little, her odd smile hinting that her father’s wrist against her neck might hurt, just a little, ...

In September 1957, four years after her father died, Svetlana Stalina began to use her mother’s name, Alliluyeva. The metallic sound of the name Stalin, she said, lacerated her heart. Ten years later, ...