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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 carryin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Finn, Peter, 1962-
Other Authors: Couvée, Petra
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Pantheon Books, [2014]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, > 1890-1960. > Doktor Zhivago.
Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, > 1890-1960 > Censorship.
Authors, Russian > 20th century > Biography.
Dissenters > Soviet Union > Biography.
Prohibited books > Soviet Union > History.
Politics and literature > Soviet Union > History.
United States. > Central Intelligence Agency > History > 20th century.
Soviet Union > Foreign relations > United States.
United States > Foreign relations > Soviet Union.
Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1953-1985.
Pasternak, Boris L., > 1890-1960. > Doktor Živago.
Zensur.
Veröffentlichung.
Biography.
History.
Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, > 1890-1960.
United States. > Central Intelligence Agency.
Doktor Zhivago (Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich)
1900 - 1999
Authors, Russian.
Censorship.
Diplomatic relations.
Dissenters.
Political science.
Politics and literature.
Prohibited books.
Soviet Union.
United States.
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."