Things changed, as will be made clear. Svetlana’s mother was Stalin’s second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva (“Nadya”). She was not the maternal type. She was the Bolshevik type, devoted to Part ...

Joining Kate for this third episode of our limited series, Real Wives of Dictators, is Sheila Fitzpatrick, historian of the Soviet Union and author of books including The Death of Stalin. This episode ...

Stalin married his second wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva, pictured here with their daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva, in 1919. Alliluyev’s death in 1932 was officially attributed to appendicitis ...

Around 750,000 people are summarily killed. In 1919 Stalin marries his second wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva and they have two children – Svetlana and Vassily. He abuses Nadezhda and she eventually ...

Stalin was so enraged that he had Yakov’s Jewish wife thrown into prison on suspicion that she had somehow weakened his will to fight. Svetlana Alliluyeva, the daughter of Stalin’s second ...