No less an authority on the Russian psyche than Leo Tolstoy wrote: "All happy families resemble one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Last week the nation was witness to a touching insight into the happiness and unhappiness of one Russian family that of Dictator Joseph Stalin, whose only daughter, third and last child and sole surviving offsprinig, Svetlana Allilueva Stalina, 42, recently dissociated herself from both Communism and the chance catastrophe of her birth.
In a 50-minute press conference-staged by the public relations firm of Hill...
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