Nadezhda Alliluyeva was born into a revolutionary family, but was it always her fate to marry Joseph Stalin? She was independent, intelligent and highly politicised. Indeed, Stalin was a hero of ...

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 ...