The Zhivago Affair

The Zhivago Affair

The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book

by Peter Finn, Petra Couvée

384 pages· ISBN 9780345803191
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Draws on unique access to classified CIA files to document the role of Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago in promoting American Cold War agendas in the 1950s, revealing how the CIA helped publish the Soviet-banned book in Russian to an enthusiastic black-market audience. 35,000 first printing.

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