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Book of the Week: Svetlana Alliluyeva - 20 Letters to a Friend

Book of the Week: Svetlana Alliluyeva - 20 Letters to a Friend: Episode 1

20 Letters to a Friend

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Svetlana Alliluyeva - 20 Letters to a Friend

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Josef Stalin's daughter relates the searing memory of her father's final hours.

4 Extra Debut. The final hours of her father Stalin's death. Svetlana Alliluyeva's 1963 memoir smuggled to India. Read by Stella Gonet.

By Svetlana Alliluyeva. Abridged by Eileen Horne. 

Writing as if to a close friend, Josef Stalin's daughter recalls her extraordinary life as an eyewitness to history, beginning with the searing memory of her father's final hours, and the turmoil provoked by his terrible death...


Read by Stella Gonet


Producer: Clive Brill
A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.

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Extracts from the memoir of Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva, who died in Nov 2011

Extracts from the memoir of Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva, who died in November 2011

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