The Zhivago affair : the Kremlin, the CIA, and the battle over a forbidden book
Draws on unique access to classified CIA files to document the role of Boris Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago" in promoting American Cold War agendas in the 1950s, revealing how the CIA helped publish the Soviet-banned book in Russian to an enthusiastic black-market audience
Print Book, English, 2013
Pantheon Books, Random House Inc, New York, 2013
Biographies
pages cm
9780307908001, 9780307908018, 0307908003, 0307908011
877909935
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 caught like a beast at bay
A college weekend with Russians
An unbearably blue sky
It's too late for me to express regret that the book wasn't published
Afterword