Stalin's Daughter (89 page)

9
. Arkady Belinkov and Natalia Belinkova, “O Viktore Loui: Interview v amerikanskoi bol’nichnoi palate” [“About Viktor Lui: Interview from an American Hospital Room”],
Raspria s vekom v dva golosa
[Two Voices in Clash with the Century] (Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2008), 422–28. Arkady Belinkov first met Victor Louis in Northern Kazakhstan in 1954 in the Ninth Spasski Ward of the Administration of Corrective and Labor Camp.

10
. Nikita Khrushchev,
Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev
, vol. 1,
Commissar 1918–1945
, ed. Sergei Khrushchev, trans. George Shriver (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004), appendix, 737.

11
. “The Svetlana Memoirs,”
Bookseller
, Aug. 12, 1967, p. 1328.

12
. “Svetlana Copyright Hearing,”
Bookseller
, Aug. 26, 1967, p. 1472.

13
. Edmund Wilson,
The Sixties: The Last Journal, 1960–72
, ed. Lewis Dabney (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993), 670.

14
. Letter from Evan Thomas to Greenbaum, June 2, 1967, PC, HarperCollins Collection.

15
. “Svetlana Stalin: My Father Was a Good Person,”
Stern
, no. 33 (Aug. 13, 1967): 11–21. Articles were published on Aug. 13, 20, 27, and Sept. 3.

16
. “Mother Is a Little Bit Screwed Up,”
Stern
, no. 35 (Aug. 27, 1967): 33–40.

17
. Biagi,
Svetlana: The Inside Story
, 69, 143–44.

18
. Ibid., 37–38.

19
. Ibid., 141.

20
. Alliluyeva,
Only One Year
, 336–39.

21
. Ibid., 340.

22
. Alliluyeva, “To Boris Leonidovich Pasternak,” 133.

23
. Author’s interview with Joan Kennan, Washington, Dec. 5, 2012.

24
. Fitzpatrick,
A Spy in the Archives
, 10.

25
. Ibid., 338.

26
. Author’s interview with Joan Kennan, Washington, Dec. 5, 2012.

27
. Author’s interview with Priscilla Johnson McMillan, Jan. 21, 2013.

28
. Letter to Joan Kennan, Oct. 26, 1967, PC, J. Kennan.

29
. Ibid.

30
. Ibid.

31
. Alliluyeva,
Only One Year
, 339.

CHAPTER 21: LETTERS TO A FRIEND

1
. Alliluyeva,
Only One Year
, 344.

2
. Ibid., 343.

3
. Ibid., 347.

4
. Letter to Evan Thomas, Sept. 14, 1967, PC, HarperCollins Collection.

5
. Alliluyeva,
Only One Year
, 399.

6
. Letter from Donald Jameson to George Kennan, Oct. 12, 1967, PUL, G. Kennan Papers, MC 076, box 22, folder 5, Jameson, Donald.

7
. Bertram Wolfe, “Svetlana’s Life: A Soul Laid Bare,”
Chicago Daily News
, Sept. 23, 1967.

8
. Arthur Schlesinger, “Twenty Letters to a Father,”
Atlantic
, November 1967.

9
. Olga Carlisle, “Dictator’s Daughter,”
New York Times Book Review
72, no. 39 (Sept. 24, 1967).

10
. Arthur Koestler, “Stalin’s Svetlana Writes Book of Homely Reflections,”
London Times Sunday Magazine
, Oct. 15, 1967.

11
. Alexander Werth, “Svetlana: Who Needs Her?”
Nation
, Nov. 6, 1967.

12
. Elizabeth Hardwick, “The Crown Jewels,”
New York Review of Books
, Oct. 12, 1967.

13
. “Mrs. Alliluyeva Donates $340,000,”
New York Times
, Oct. 26, 1967.

14
. Ibid.

15
. Silverstone, “Suburbanization of Svetlana,” 59.

16
. Letter to Joan Kennan, Oct. 26, 1967, PC, J. Kennan.

17
. Edmund Wilson, “Books: Two Soviet Households,”
New Yorker
, Dec. 9, 1967.

18
. Alliluyeva,
Twenty Letters
, 255.

CHAPTER 22: A CRUEL REBUFF

1
. Meryle Secrest interview with Svetlana Alliluyeva, audio recording, group 1, tape 12, HIA.

2
. NARA, RG 59, Central Foreign Policy Files 1967–69, Political and Defense Pol 29 USSR, To Pol 30 USSR, Memorandum of Conversation: General Edward Greenbaum to Foy Kohler, Dec. 4, 1967.

3
. Alliluyeva,
Only One Year
, 441.

4
. Silverstone, “Suburbanization of Svetlana,” 56.

5
. Meryle Secrest interview with Svetlana Alliluyeva, audio recording, group 2, tape 1, HIA. Alliluyeva claimed it was a joke.

6
. Reported by Evgeniya Tucker, telephone interview with author, Mar. 14, 2013.

7
. Paul Preston,
We Saw Spain Die: Foreign Correspondents in the Spanish Civil War
(London: Constable & Robinson, 2008), 216.

8
. Ibid., 257.

9
. Louis Fischer,
Men and Politics: An Autobiography
(New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1941), 90–91.

10
. Milovan Djilas,
Conversations with Stalin
, trans. Michael B. Petrovich (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962), 70.

11
. Letter to Louis Fischer, Apr. 5, 1968, Louis Fischer Papers, MC 204, box 1, folder 7, 1968–69, PUL.

12
. Letter to Louis Fischer, Apr. 8, 1968, PUL.

13
. Letter to Louis Fischer, Apr. 5, 1968, PUL.

14
. Letter to Louis Fischer, June 6, 1968, PUL.

15
. Letter to Louis Fischer, June 8, 1968, PUL.

16
. Letter to Louis Fischer, Apr. 5, 1968, PUL.

17
. Letter to author from Robert Rayle, Sept. 24, 2013.

18
. Author’s interview with Robert and Ramona Rayle, Ashburn, VA, July 18–19, 2013.

19
. Letter to Louis Fischer, Aug. 27, 1968, PUL.

20
. United States Immigration and Naturalization Service.

21
. Letter to Louis Fischer, June 27, 1968, PUL.

22
. Ibid.

23
. Alliluyeva,
Faraway Music
, 31.

24
. Ibid., 34.

25
. Letter from Ark. Belinkov to Svetlana Alliluyeva, Aug. 18, 1968, Louis Fischer Papers, MC 24, box 1, folder 7, Allilueva, Svetlana Stalina, 1968–69, PUL.

26
. Ibid.

27
. Belinkov and Belinkova,
Two Voices in Clash with the Century,
399.

28
. Letter to Edmund Wilson, Aug. 13, 1968, translated from Russian, Edmund Wilson Papers, folder 32, Allilueva, Svetlana, 1968–79, PUL.

29
. Belinkov and Belinkova,
Two Voices in Clash with the Century
, 400.

30
. Letter to Louis Fischer, Aug. 29, 1968, PUL.

31
. Letter to Louis Fischer, Sept. 3, 1968, PUL.

32
. Letter to Louis Fischer, Aug. 19, 1968, PUL.

33
. Letter to Louis Fischer, Sept. 8, 1968, PUL.

34
. Letter to Louis Fischer, Sept. 17, 1968, PUL.

35
. Preston,
We Saw Spain Die
, 261–62; and ‘Dede’ to Fischer (undated), box 10, folder 1, Fischer Papers, PUL.

36
. Letters to Louis Fischer, Oct. 26, 30, 1968, PUL.

37
. Letter to Joan Kennan, Oct. 29, 1968, PC, J. Kennan.

38
. Letter to Fischer, Nov. 13, 1968, PUL.

39
. Letter from Fischer to Alliluleyva, Nov. 24, 1968, PUL.

40
. Patricia Blake, “The Saga of Stalin’s ‘Little Sparrow,’ “
Time
, Jan. 28, 1985, 49.

41
. Preston,
We Saw Spain Die
, 261; and undated letter (1957), box 10, folder 1, Fischer Papers, PUL.

42
. Preston,
We Saw Spain Die
, 262

43
. Author’s interview with Priscilla Johnson McMillan, Jan. 21, 2013.

44
. Author’s interview with Joan Kennan, Washington, Dec. 5, 2012.

CHAPTER 23: ONLY ONE YEAR

1
. Letter to Louis Fischer, Dec. 26, 1968, PUL.

2
. Wilson,
The Sixties
, 754–55.

3
. Ibid., 758.

4
. Ibid.

5
. Author’s interview with David and Clarissa Pryce-Jones, London, June 25, 2013.

6
. Letter to Louis Fischer, Feb. 3, 1969, PUL.

7
. Letter to Louis Fischer, Mar. 5, 1969, PUL.

8
. Letter to Louis Fischer, Mar. 28, 1969, PUL.

9
. Letter to Louis Fischer, May 12, 1969, PUL.

10
. Letter to Annelise Kennan, Apr. 24, 1969, George F. Kennan Papers, MC 076, box 38, folder 6, PUL.

11
. Letter to Louis Fischer, June 13, 1969, PUL.

12
. Letter to Louis Fischer, Aug. 7, 1969, PUL.

13
. Letter from Cass Canfield to W. A. R. Collins, Nov. 27, 1968, PC, HarperCollins Collection.

14
. Letter from Cass Canfield to P. Chavchavadze, Dec. 3, 1968, PC, HarperCollins Collection.

15
. Harrison Salisbury wrote to George Kennan that he thought Svetlana was right about Beria and that reviewers should not have been so contemptuous of her insistence that Beria had a sinister influence over her father. Letter, June 8, 1967, George Kennan Papers, MC 076, Salisbury, Harrison, box 43, folder 2, PUL.

16
. Alliluyeva,
Only One Year
, 141–43.

17
. Ibid., 181–82, 358.

18
. Ibid., 362.

19
. Ibid., 393.

20
. Ibid., 169.

21
. Ibid., 181.

22
. Ibid., 175.

23
. Ibid., 182.

24
. Edmund Wilson,
Letters on Literature and Politics 1912–1972
, ed. Elena Wilson (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1977), 702, letter dated July 1, 1969.

25
. Wilson,
The Sixties
, 809.

26
. Silverstone, “Suburbanization of Svetlana,” 55.

27
. “Andropov: KGB Meeting November 5, 1969,” Meryle Secrest Collection, Svetlana Peters: General File, HIA.

28
. Author’s interview with Olga Alliluyeva, Toronto, May 5, 2012.

29
. Belinkov and Belinkova,
Two Voices in Clash with the Century
, 400–401.

30
. Letter to Louis Fischer, Sept. 8, 1968, PUL.

31
. Letter to Louis Fischer, Mar. 5, 1969, PUL.

32
. Robert Tucker, “Svetlana Inherited Her Tragic Flaw,”
Washington Post
, Nov. 25, 1984.

33
. Meryle Secrest interview with Svetlana Alliluyeva, audio recording, group 1, tape 18, HIA.

34
. Letter to Robert and Ramona Rayle, Dec. 9, 2008, PC, Rayle.

35
. Louis Fischer,
Russia’s Road from Peace to War: Soviet Foreign Relations
1917–1941 (New York: Harper & Row, 1969), 301.

36
. Letter to Robert Rayle, Aug. 23, 2005, letter no. 3, PC, Rayle.

37
. “Moscow Ends Svetlana Alliluyeva’s Soviet Citizenship,”
New York Times
, Jan. 22, 1970, p. 3.

38
. Alliluyeva,
Faraway Music
, 48.

39
. Edmund Wilson, review of
Only One Year, New Yorker
45, no. 32 (Sept. 27, 1967): 153.

40
. Margaret Parton, “Only One Year,”
Saturday Review
52, no. 40 (Oct. 4, 1969): 44.

41
. “Svetlana Faces Life,” Book Review,
Life
, Oct. 3, 1969, 12.

42
. Philip Rahv, “The Princess,”
Commentary
49, no. 3 (March 1970): 71.