Etulehdellä merkintä, muuten siisti kirja.

Publisher:

Little Brown and Co, 1993, Hardcover, 308pages

When Joseph Stalin married Nadya Alliluyeva in 1918, he already knew her parents well - they had been in the underground revolutionary movement together before the Bolshevik uprising. There was then very little to indicate the fate that the son-in-law would inflict on this idealistic family. Published to mark the 40th anniversary of Stalin's death, this is the story of four generations of Alliluyevs from 1860 to the present, mainly in their own words, and an exploration of how far "the sins of the fathers" reach down through the generations.

Author and interviewer Rosamond Richardson llinks the human story with its political background, telling a powerful tale of struggle, revolution, tragedy and survival. Her book brilliantly recreates the atmosphere of the times - Russia on the brink of change, then hurled into the horror of the one-party system and the rule of an autocrat who governed by fear. The Long Shadow also unfolds a psychological drama that has been experienced in its own way by millions of families not only in Russia, but anywhere in the world where people live under oppression, on whatever scale.