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Item Information   Holdings     Author Notes & Sketches     Fiction & Biography     First Chapter Excerpts     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Summary     Table of Contents       More by this author     Finn, Peter, 1962-     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 -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union.     Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1953-1985.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Finn, Peter, 1962-       by title:      The Zhivago affair :...         MARC Display

The Zhivago affair : the Kremlin, the CIA, and the battle over a forbidden book / Peter Finn and Petra Couvée. by Finn, Peter, 1962- New York : Pantheon Books, [2014] 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 -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union.   Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1953-1985. Additional Author:  Couvée, Petra. Summary:  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 carrying the manuscript of Pasternak's first and only novel, entrusted to him with these words: "This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world." Pasternak believed his novel would never be published in the Soviet Union, where the authorities regarded it as irredeemable--but he thought it stood a chance in the West and, indeed, it was widely published in translation. Then the CIA smuggled a Russian-language edition into the Soviet Union. Copies were sold on the black market and passed surreptitiously from friend to friend, and Pasternak found himself in no small trouble. But his funeral in 1960 was attended by thousands of admirers who defied their government in order to bid him farewell. The example he set launched the great tradition of the Soviet writer-dissident.--From publisher description. Edition:  First edition. Description:  352 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. ISBN:  9780307908001 (hard cover : alkaline paper) 0307908003 (hard cover : alkaline paper)   Copy/Holding information Location Status Collection Call No.   Main - Anderson Public Library Withdrawn Adult Non-Fiction 891.73 Past F Request Copy Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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