The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the Cia, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book

by Peter Finn and Petra Couvée

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The Zhivago Affair is the dramatic, never-before-told story--drawing on newly declassified files--of how a forbidden book became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West. In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout went to a village outside Moscow to visit Russia's greatest living poet, Boris Pasternak. He left carrying the manuscript of Pasternak's only novel, suppressed by Soviet authorities. From there the life of this extraordinary...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0345803191

ISBN13:9780345803191

Release Date:April 2015

Publisher:Vintage

Length:384 Pages

Weight:0.84 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Related Subjects

Censorship History Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Russian & Former Soviet Union

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