{"product_id":"only-one-year-a-memoir-isbn-9780062442628","title":"Only One Year: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Among the great Russian autobiographical works: Herzen, Kropotkin, Tolstoy’s \u003cem\u003eConfession\u003c\/em\u003e.” —Edmund Wilson, \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAfter the success of her \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestselling childhood memoir \u003cem\u003eTwenty Letters to a Friend\u003c\/em\u003e, Josef Stalin’s daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva—subject of Rosemary Sullivan’s critically acclaimed biography \u003cem\u003eStalin’s Daughter\u003c\/em\u003e—penned this riveting account of her year-long journey to defect from the USSR and start a new life in America.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story of \u003cem\u003eOnly One Year\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat 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 father—Joseph Stalin. Why did she make such a drastic choice? This book, a detailed account of reality in the USSR, is her explanation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrank, fascinating, and thoroughly engrossing, \u003cem\u003eOnly One Year\u003c\/em\u003e reveals life behind the Iron Curtain, the risks and subterfuge of defection, and one extraordinary woman’s fight for her future.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn this remarkable memoir, Svetlana Alliluyeva reveals her struggle to break completely from the world of Communism and the legacy of her notorious father —Joseph Stalin—\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e by defecting from\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e the USSR to\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e the United States.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOnly One Year\u003c\/em\u003e begins on December 19, 1966, as Alliluyeva leaves Russia for India, on a one-month visa, in the custody of a staff member of the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It ends on December 19, 1967, in Princeton, New Jersey, as she and two American friends toast to her new life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy would a woman flee the only world she has ever known? Brutally honest and moving, \u003cem\u003eOnly One Year\u003c\/em\u003e is the personal story of a dictator’s daughter who, trapped behind the Iron Curtain, made the drastic decision to defect. And now—nearly fifty years after its initial publication—Alliluyeva’s compelling narrative of suffering, sacrifice, and subterfuge becomes all the more poignant because\u003cbr\u003eher escape ultimately did not bring her the freedom she so desperately sought.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Compelling reading from first page to last.... To be Stalin’s daughter and to remain human is an admirable accomplishment, and this remarkable book, written with grace and human compassion, is a testimony to a remarkable woman.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHouston Post, ORIGINAL EDITION\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Fascinating, revealing, profoundly human, and significant.... The letters move relentlessly on through deepening tragedy, dark happenings, and deaths.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times, ORIGINAL EDITION\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It’s a rich and absorbing book that could be endlessly quoted, by…a woman who stands free in the sunlight.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSaturday Review, ORIGINAL EDITION\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“She is a shrewd observer of character, and her analysis of her father’s psychology…is chillingly convincing.... Has an unexpected power to stir speculation and to evoke a strange but vitally significant era.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBaltimore Sun, ORIGINAL EDITION\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This book is not the work of a sensationalist or a traitor. It is wrung from an agonized conscience and a sickened heart.... It is a testament which, someday, one must hope, Russians will be free to read—and will then be grateful to Svetlana Alliluyeva for the witness she has so courageously and movingly borne.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eArthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Atlantic, ORIGINAL EDITION\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Twenty Letters to a Friend: “Twenty Letters to a Friend is fascinating from the first page to the last.... A rich and absorbing memoir.... 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