The Zhivago affair the Kremlin, the CIA, and the battle over a forbidden book
Drawing on newly declassified files, this is the story of how a book forbidden in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West. In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout paid a visit to Russia's greatest living poet, Boris Pasternak. He left carrying the...
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New York :
Pantheon Books,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue :"This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world."
- "The roof over the whole of Russia has been torn off."
- "Pasternak, without realizing it, entered the personal life of Stalin."
- "I have arranged to meet you in a novel."
- "You are aware of the anti-Soviet nature of the novel?"
- "Until it is finished, I am a fantastically, manically unfree man."
- "Not to publish a novel like this would constitute a crime against culture."
- "If this is freedom seen through Western eyes, well, I must say we have a different view of it."
- "We tore a big hole in the Iron Curtain."
- "We'll do it black."
- "He also looks the genius: raw nerves, misfortune, fatality."
- "There would be no mercy, that was clear."
- "Pasternak's name spells war."
- "I am lost like a beast in an enclosure."
- "A college weekend with Russians"
- "An unbearably blue sky"
- "It's too late for me to express regret that the book wasn't published."
