Word: allilueva
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...quite sure). Lenin was still alive. Joseph Stalin, in his middle 40s, was then Commissar of Nationalities and engaged in a bitter and bloody civil war. His first wife, Katerina Svanidze, had died four years before, and Stalin had taken as his second wife his secretary, Nadezhda Allilueva, the young daughter of an old-line Bolshevik who had once sheltered him from Czarist police. A year or so after their marriage, Nadezhda Allilueva presented her husband with a son, red-haired like his mother...
...Dzhigit." The night of Nov. 9, 1932 is memorable in Vasily's life. At a Kremlin party commemorating the 15th anniversary of the October Revolution, Nadezhda Allilueva argued with her husband about a political amnesty he was postponing, and in anger threw an inkstand at him. Early next morning, the Kremlin doctor was called to Stalin's apartment. Nadezhda lay dead on the floor. Stalin stood by, white and drawn, a pistol nearby on the desk. Nadezhda had committed suicide, he said, undoubtedly over a law exam she was studying...
...other, Yasha Djugashvili, was Stalin's son by his first wife, Katerina. Vasya and sister Svetlana, 23, are children of Stalin's second wife, Allilueva, who died...