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Many historians believe that Stalin engineered a famine in 1933 in an attempt to break the back-bone of the nationalist-minded Ukrainian peasantry, causing the death of seven million villagers. Despite a relatively normal harvest in Ukraine--considered the Soviet Union's bread-basket--Soviet officials ignored signs of mass starvation, scholars say, requiring nearly all foodstuffs to be exported outside of the republic...
...Picasso's, but much deeper. Rivera gave Leon Trotsky asylum from Stalinist assassins (including the painter David Alfaro Siqueiros) in his own house at Coyoacan, but two years later Trotsky moved out, complaining that he no longer felt "moral solidarity" with Rivera's "anarchistic" views. In 1940 Rivera denounced Stalin as "the undertaker of the Revolution," the betrayer of Spain; by 1952 he was painting a saintly Uncle Joe with a peace dove on one hand and the Stockholm peace petition in the other. Rivera's political life had as many twists and turns as the feathered serpent Quetzalcoatl...
When Svetlana Alliluyeva, the only daughter of Joseph Stalin, defected to the U.S. almost 20 years ago and declared her homeland a "prison," the West enjoyed a huge propaganda coup. When she redefected to the Soviet Union in 1984, the Soviets could claim their own victory after she said that she had not been free for "one single day" while living in the U.S. Last week Svetlana again returned to American soil. But this time neither East nor West had much to say, perhaps in recognition that her restless wanderings are intensely personal and have little to do with ideologies...
...reported to have fought bitterly with her son, a Moscow doctor. A few months later, her daughter, a geologist who spends most of her time on Kamchatka Peninsula in the Soviet far east, announced that she wanted no contact with her mother. Svetlana and Olga moved to Tbilisi, in Stalin's home republic of Georgia. In Gori, his birthplace, many still revere the dictator who brutally ruled the Soviet Union for 24 years...
Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin's only daughter, first made headlines in 1967 when, during a trip to India, she defected to the West. In 1984 she was back in the news when she unexpectedly returned to the Soviet Union with her American-born daughter Olga. Once in Moscow, Svetlana bitterly charged that in the West she had been "not free for one single...