An edition of The Zhivago affair
(2014)
The Zhivago affair
the Kremlin, the CIA and the battle over a forbidden book
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by Peter Finn
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- Boris Pasternak knew his novel, Doctor Zhivago, would never be published in the Soviet Union as the authorities regarded it as seditious, so, instead, he pressed the manuscript into the hands of an Italian publishing scout and allowed it to be published in translation all over the world - a highly dangerous act. 1958. The CIA, recognising that the Cold War was primarily an ideological battle, published Doctor Zhivago in Russian and smuggled it into the Soviet Union. It was immediately snapped up on the black market. Pasternak was later forced to renounce the Nobel Prize in Literature, igniting worldwide political scandal. With first access to previously classified CIA files, The Zhivago Affair gives an irresistible portrait of Pasternak, and takes us deep into the Cold War, back to a time when literature had the power to shake the world.
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Prohibited books, Politics and government, Dissenters, United States. Central Intelligence Agency, United States, Biography, Censorship, Politics and literature, Russian Authors, Foreign relations, History, United states, foreign relations, soviet union, Soviet union, foreign relations, united states, Soviet union, politics and government, 1945-1991, Pasternak, boris leonidovich, 1890-1960, Large type books, Diplomatic relations, Doktor Zhivago (Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich)Places
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The Zhivago affair: the Kremlin, the CIA, and the battle over a forbidden book
2015, Vintage Books
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0345803191 9780345803191
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The Zhivago affair: the Kremlin, the CIA and the battle over a forbidden book
2015, Thorpe
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- Large print edition.
178541044X 9781785410444
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The Zhivago affair: the Kremlin, the CIA, and the battle over a forbidden book
2014, Harvill Secker
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- 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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