Svetlana Stalin merits a little space in this magazine. First, she was an important and fascinating figure of the 20th century. But second, she declared National Review her favorite publication ...

Stalin was so enraged that he had Yakov’s Jewish wife thrown into prison on suspicion that she had somehow weakened his will to fight. Svetlana Alliluyeva, the daughter of Stalin’s second ...

Stalin married his second wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva, pictured here with their daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva, in 1919. Alliluyev’s death in 1932 was officially attributed to appendicitis ...

For Part I, go here. The series concludes today. Stalin, it will shock you to know, was not a good father-in-law. His daughter, Svetlana, had three or four husbands — it depends on how you count.

Another addition is that of Svetlana, Stalin’s 16-year-old daughter, who turns out to be a fan of Dickens’s David Copperfield, which she reads in English. Much of the comedy of the evening comes from ...

The play is ultimately about power – the women’s presence, and that of Stalin’s daughter Svetlana, partially undermines the “great man” reading of history - but the translation schtick ...