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...Khrushchev's own career skyrocketed, and by 1934 he was party leader of Moscow. One reason: Stalin's second wife, Nadezhda Sergeyevna Alliluyeva, who had been a fellow student at the Industrial Academy, was impressed by Khrushchev and told her husband about him. "Nadya," mother of Svetlana Alliluyeva, committed suicide in 1932. But her judgment of Khrushchev endured in Stalin's mind, a stroke of luck that the old Soviet leader readily acknowledges. In the years that followed, he says, "I stayed alive while most of my contemporaries, my classmates at the academy, lost their heads...
...vacationing in Afon on the Black Sea, the dictator strolled past Khrushchev and Mikoyan, muttering, "I'm finished. I trust no one, not even myself." On another occasion, he forgot Bulganin's name. At his last New Year's celebration, a drunken Stalin ordered his daughter Svetlana to dance in front of the guests. "Stalin grabbed her by the forelock with his fist and pulled. I could see her face turning red and tears welling up in her eyes. He pulled harder and dragged her back onto the dance floor...
...wants to be is Mrs. William Wesley Peters, housewife. That may not seem much to ask, but when the seeker of anonymity is the former Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Joseph Stalin, the request takes on unusual proportions. At home in Spring Green, Wis., the bride of four months, whose husband is vice president of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, still cannot escape pesky reporters requesting interviews. Mrs. Peters patiently insists that she is not planning to write a third book. "I am planning to do nothing except be a good wife to my husband. That is a full-time...
...Married. Svetlana Alliluyeva, 44, Josef Stalin's only daughter, who astonished the world by defecting to the U.S. in 1967; and William Wesley Peters, 57, architect and vice president of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, whom she met less than a month ago while visiting the foundation; in a Quaker ceremony near Phoenix, Ariz...
...Soviet Union's best-known defector, Svetlana Alliluyeva, confessed that last spring she received some "semiofficial" advice from the U.S.S.R. via a visiting Russian musician. She says she was asked to "keep quiet" and write no more. Further, Stalin's daughter -who intends to apply for U.S. citizenship-was also advised not to marry in America. "I told him that I cannot promise," she replied. Not that she has anyone special in mind-but then "how do I know...