Only One Year

<p><strong>Among the great Russian autobiographical works: Herzen Kropotkin Tolstoy's <em>Confession</em>. --Edmund Wilson <em>The New Yorker</em></strong></p><p><strong>After the success of her <em>New York Times </em>bestselling childhood memoir <em>Twenty Letters to a Friend</em> Josef Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva--subject of Rosemary Sullivan's critically acclaimed biography <em>Stalin's Daughter</em>--penned this riveting account of her year-long journey to defect from the USSR and start a new life in America.</strong></p><p>The story of <em>Only One Year</em> 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. </p><p>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 father--Joseph Stalin. Why did she make such a drastic choice? This book a detailed account of reality in the USSR is her explanation.</p><p>Frank fascinating and thoroughly engrossing <em>Only One Year</em> reveals life behind the Iron Curtain the risks and subterfuge of defection and one extraordinary woman's fight for her future.</p>