The Zhivago Affair The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over Format: Paperback

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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 book entered the realm of the spy novel. The CIA published a Russian-language edition of Doctor Zhivago and smuggled it into the Soviet Union. Copies were devoured in Moscow and Leningrad, sold on the black market, and passed from friend to friend. Pasternak’s funeral in 1960 was attended by thousands who defied their government to bid him farewell, and his example launched the great tradition of the Soviet writer-dissident. First to obtain CIA files providing proof of the agency’s involvement, Peter Finn and Petra Couvée take us back to a remarkable Cold War era when literature had the power to stir the world.

(With 8 pages of black-and-white illustrations.)

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Narrative Type: book

Type: book

Intended Audience: General/trade

Book Title: Zhivago Affair : the Kremlin, the Cia, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book

Number of Pages: 384 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Item Height: 0.8 in

Publication Year: 2015

Topic: Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Intelligence & Espionage, International Relations / General, Literary, Russian & Former Soviet Union, Subjects & Themes / Politics, Books & Reading

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Literary Criticism, Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, History

Item Weight: 12.5 Oz

Author: Peter Finn, Petra Couvée

Item Length: 8 in

Item Width: 5.2 in

Format: Trade Paperback