Beria with Stalin ( in background ), Nestor Lakoba | Lakoba ( obscured ) and Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva | Svetlana

" When Beria left the room, he broke the somber atmosphere by shouting loudly for his driver, his voice echoing with what Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva called " the ring of triumph unconcealed.

* 1967 – Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.

* March 9 – Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, defects to the USA via the U. S. Embassy in New Delhi.

Stalin's daughter later claimed that his fight with Trotsky laid the foundations for his later anti-semitic campaigns.

According to Roy Medvedev, Stalin's daughter Svetlana recalled Molotov and his wife telling her: " Your father was a genius.

Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva (, ; 28 February, 1926 – 22 November, 2011 ), later known as Lana Peters, was the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Stalin's second wife.

In 1944, his daughter Ekaterina married Stalin's son Vasily.

Although the current director of the Kremlin Museums, Elena Gagarina ( Yuri Gagarin's daughter ) advocates a full-scale restoration of the destroyed cloisters, recent developments have been confined to expensive restoration of the original interiors of the Grand Kremlin Palace, which were altered during Stalin's rule.

Zhdanov's son, Yuri ( 1919 – 2006 ), married Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, in 1949.

Joffe's daughter, Nadezhda Joffe, an active Trotskyist, survived Stalin's prisons and labor camps and published a memoir, Back in Time: My Life, My Fate, My Epoch.

He subsequently appeared in a number of very public libel actions, including acting for John Bloom, International Herald Tribune, Svetlana Alliluyeva ( Joseph Stalin's daughter ), and Lee Kwan Yew ( prime minister of Singapore ), and The Spectator.

Bush in the late 1980s, helped Nikolai Bukharin's widow, Anna Larina, rehabilitate her name during the Soviet era, and met Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana.

The woman turned out to be Stalin's daughter Svetlana, desperately seeking extension of her visa to build a memorial for her late husband Brajesh Singh of the Kalkanker royal family. Since the erstwhile USSR was opposed to India entertaining Svetlana, even the fact that Singh's nephew, Dinesh Singh, was in Indira Gandhi's inner circle did not help. Lohia, the stormy petrel of Indian politics, was her last hope.

He is also known for his brief romance with Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva.

The public identified its title subject as none other than Stalin's daughter ( born in 1926, she could not have been Grabar's subject ; the legend persisted into 1960s ).

* Svetlana: The Story of Stalin's Daughter, New American Library, 1967.

Yakov Iosifovich Dzhugashvili (, ) ( 18 March 1907 – 14 April 1943 ) was one of Joseph Stalin's three children ( along with Svetlana Alliluyeva and Vasily Dzhugashvili ).

Starting from this moment, Joseph Stalin ceased to visit his children ; only the nursemaid and head of Stalin's security guards looked after Vasily and his sister, Svetlana.

Zhemchuzhina and Stalin's wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva became close friends.

In her essay " Trotsky Protests Too Much " she says " I admit, the dictatorship under Stalin's rule has become monstrous.

Akhmatova's stature among Soviet poets was slowly conceded by party officials, her name no longer cited in only scathing contexts and she was readmitted to Union of Writers in 1951, being fully recognised again following Stalin's death in 1953.

# Took note of Stalin's statement that if Turkey found herself at war with Germany, and as a result Bulgaria declared war on Turkey or attacked her, the Soviet Union would immediately be at war with Bulgaria.

Alliluyeva's second marriage was arranged for her ; that husband was Yuri Zhdanov, the son of Stalin's right-hand-man Andrei Zhdanov and himself one of Stalin's close associates.

Tresca alleged that, before she had disappeared, Poyntz had talked to him about her disgust over Joseph Stalin's Great Terror.

She was a controversial character, dubbed Stalin's granny, Attila the Hen and the Nat Basher in Chief ( because of her constant attacks on the Scottish National Party ).

After the suicide of Stalin's wife Nadezhda during 1932, the GUM was used briefly to display her body.

Joffe's wife Maria Joffe was arrested as a left-oppositionist trotskyist by Stalin's security forces, yet she survived to write her memoirs One Long Night-A tale of Truth.

She elevated her husband as the figure of an artistic martyr under Stalin's repressive regime.

Olga lived in exile in Denmark until 1948 when, feeling threatened by Joseph Stalin's regime, she moved her immediate family to a farm in Ontario, Canada.

Dej traveled to Moscow in August 1951 to seek Stalin's approval for purging Pauker and her allies in the Secretariat ( Vasile Luca and Teohari Georgescu ).

Politically she is difficult to classify, except as an extremist: on the one hand she repeatedly praises the ' classless society ' of the Strength Through Joy ship and supports her grandson even after the murder ; on the other hand, she becomes a model functionary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in East Germany, weeping on the news of Joseph Stalin's death.

In 1937, Bonner's father was arrested by the NKVD and executed as part of Stalin's Great Purge ; her mother was arrested a few days later, and served eight years in a forced labor camp near Karaganda, Kazakhstan, followed by nine years of internal exile.

In Red Alerts alternative ending the USSR's conquest of Europe was completed, which would swiftly result in Stalin's assassination at the hands of Nadia, and her revealing the name of Kane as well as the existence of the Brotherhood of Nod to the player.

After Joseph Stalin's death in 1953, her sentence was reduced to hard labor in Vorkuta, in the Soviet Arctic.

He said that before she disappeared, she had come to him to talk over her disgust at what she had seen in Moscow in 1936 in the early stages of Joseph Stalin's Great Purge.

Luxemburg died before Stalin's assumption of power, and never had a chance to come up with a complete theory of Stalinism, but her criticisms of the Bolsheviks have been taken up by many writers in their arguments about the origins of Stalinism, including many who are otherwise far from Luxemburgism.

( Although this passage was quoted in Stalin's book " The October Revolution " issued in 1934, it was expunged in Stalin's Works released in 1949.

He cemented his place in Stalin's entourage with a lengthy oration titled, " On the History of the Bolshevik Organisations in Transcaucasia " ( later published as a book ), which emphasized Stalin's role in it.

" The Master ", a major protagonist in the book, is a writer who is plagued by both his own mental problems and the oppression of Stalin's regime in 1930s Moscow.

The archives were used by British historian Orlando Figes when he was researching his 2008 book The Whisperers: Private Lives in Stalin's Russia.

She co-wrote an underground book, Memory, which detailed Stalin's terror and was subsequently published overseas.

Through extended visits in more remote places such as the Moldavian ASSR ( where he got in touch with his friend Ecaterina Arbore ), Nizhny Novgorod, Baku and Batumi, Istrati learned the full truth of Joseph Stalin's communist dictatorship, out of which experience he wrote his famous book, The Confession of a Loser, the first in the succession of disenchantments expressed by intellectuals such as Arthur Koestler, André Gide and George Orwell.

Icebreaker: Who Started the Second World War ?, by Viktor Suvorov ( Russian title: Ledokol, Ледокол ) is a 1987 documentary book, which alleges that World War II started as a result of Joseph Stalin's ploy to " liberate " the working class of Europe and eventually the whole world.

He is known mostly for secretly transporting the entire gold reserve of Spanish Republic to the USSR and for his book, The Secret History of Stalin's Crimes.

George Orwell in his book Homage to Catalonia sees the May days as a suppression of the revolution by parties backed by Stalin's USSR such as the PSUC.

In July 2009, prior to the publication of his own book, Robert Service had written a review of Partenaude's publication Stalin's Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky which he applauded for being " vividly told " but also criticised for neglecting Trotsky's crimes while sharing power in the USSR.

The complete title of the book is The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties.

The first critical inquiry into the Great Purge had been made as early as 1937, by the Dewey Commission, which published its findings in the form of a 422-page book entitled Not Guilty ( this title referred to the people who had been charged with various crimes by Stalin's government and therefore purged ; the Dewey Commission found them not guilty ).

It is also known to have been Joseph Stalin's favourite book.

An excerpt from this interview is included in Stalin's book on Lenin.

Vadim Rogovin's book 1937: Stalin's Year of Terror contains a lengthy discussion of another unexplained mystery: it took only about two weeks to force admission of guilt from the accused, despite the fact that all of them, were relatively young, able-bodied military trained people.

A book Barmine wrote during this period based on his experiences in the Soviet Union under Stalin's Terror, titled Memoirs of a Soviet Diplomat, was published in 1938.

By making his revelations public, Barmine felt the book might help frustrate Stalin's immediate desire to silence him.

* Andrzej Walicki, Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame's May 17, 1987 New York Times review of Teresa Torańska's book, Them: Stalin's Polish Puppets

Recently another one of Stalin's doubles came forward, having written a book about his adventures as a political decoy.

The entire electronic archive of Memorial in St Petersburg, including the materials collected with British historian Orlando Figes for his book The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia, was confiscated by the police.