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The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book
By Finn, Peter & Petra Couvée
- ISBN
- 9781622314362
- Publisher
- HighBridge Audio
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Library Journal
Reviewed on November 1, 2014 | Audio
Originally smuggled out of the country and released in translation by an Italian publisher, Doctor Zhivago caught the attention of the CIA as a potential weapon in the cultural front of the Cold War. Their interest intensified when the author, Boris Pasternak, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 after the book was banned in the Soviet Union. Its release...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
