Svetlana Alliluyeva Flight to Freedom Author:James A. Hudson Stalin's Daughter. This is Svetlana's own story of what it is like to grow up in the shadow of history's bloodiest tyrant. It is also the story of Joseph Stalin, dictator, mass murderer, sometimes loving father. Above all, it is the record of a young woman's search for love and personal identity in a worldof terror an intrigue. One by one Svetla... more »na's husbands and lovers died or disappeared. And still she dared to defy Stalin, knowing well what happened to her mother. She dared to defy the secret policeman he sent to spy on her most intimate moments.« less