The Zhivago affair : the Kremlin, the CIA, and the battle over a forbidden book /

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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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.
United States. > Central Intelligence Agency > History > 20th century.
Authors, Russian > 20th century > Biography.
Dissenters > Soviet Union > Biography.
Prohibited books > Soviet Union > History.
Politics and literature > Soviet Union > History.
Soviet Union > Foreign relations > United States.
United States > Foreign relations > Soviet Union.
Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1953-1985.

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