Word: svetlana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When Svetlana Alliluyeva was on her way to Switzerland from India in March, someone gave her a copy of Doctor Zhivago in Russian. It was, she is sure, no coincidence, but an act of fate. Soon immersed in the book, which is banned in Russia, she found that it affected her like "a squall of rain and snow, like an avalanche, like a hurricane." Suffused with Pasternak's lan guage and imagery, she sat down and wrote an extraordinary 3,200-word document that she hoped would find its way back to her children and friends in Russia. Last...
Slightly reminiscent of Saul Bellow's Herzog, who in his imagination writes letters to everybody, Svetlana addresses one and all, including God. Her words to her daughter: "My darling Katya, my heart's blood, straight as a rowan tree, sweet as a cherry, what have I done to you?! I have left you all alone, my love, and how you must be crying there now, though you are such a brave girl and don't like to be a crybaby, my little one. . . . Let them all condemn me-and you condemn me as well, if that will...
...chief of mission to the U.S., had "decided that he wishes to become a permanent resident of the United States, and it is our understanding that he is submitting a letter of resignation to his government." Thus last week, little more than two months after the defection of Svetlana Allilueva Stalina, another Communist VIP made the big switch. The highest-ranking Communist diplomat ever to have defected to the West,* Radványi was, in addition, an invaluable source for U.S. intelligence on recent events in the fast-changing countries of Eastern Europe...
...going to become a very rich woman," said Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilueva Stalina, 42, when she arrived in the U.S. "It is absolutely impossible for me to become a rich person here." She planned to give away large sums, and had no idea how much money she would be making. But, as every immigrant knows, America is a land of opportunity. Since she arrived, bids to publish and serialize her 80,000-word memoir, Twenty Letters to a Friend, have poured in from much of the world. The Book-of-the-Month Club, for instance, last week paid...
LIFE tried to buy foreign rights to the book, and even explored the overseas possibilities on Svetlana's behalf. Her U.S. lawyer, 77-year-old Edward S. Greenbaum, listened to the sums involved and then decided he could make a better deal by hiring a literary agent to negotiate with European publishers. As bids feverishly escalated, he was able to turn down an $850,000 offer from Italian Publisher Giorgio Mondadori for exclusive foreign rights-one of the largest prices ever offered in Europe for a book. By week's end Greenbaum had concluded lucrative agreements with publishers...