The Zhivago affair : the Kremlin, the CIA, and the battle over a forbidden book / Peter Finn, Petra Couvée.

By: Finn, Peter, 1962- [author.]Contributor(s): Couvee, Petra [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Harvill Secker, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 352 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781846557125 (hardback); 9781846558856 (paperback)Subject(s): Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960. Doktor Zhivago | Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960 -- Censorship | Prohibited books -- Soviet Union -- History | Politics and literature -- Soviet Union | United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union | Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States | Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1953-1985DDC classification: 891.7342 Summary: 1956. Boris Pasternak presses a manuscript into the hands of an Italian publishing scout with these words: 'This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world.' This book offers a portrait of Pasternak, and takes us deep into the Cold War, back to a time when literature had the power to shape the world.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1956. Boris Pasternak presses a manuscript into the hands of an Italian publishing scout with these words: 'This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world.' This book offers a portrait of Pasternak, and takes us deep into the Cold War, back to a time when literature had the power to shape the world.

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