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The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book by Peter Finn and Petra Couvée

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1956. Boris Pasternak presses a manuscript into the hands of an Italian publishing scout with these words: ‘This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world.’ Pasternak knew his novel would never be published in the Soviet Union as the authorities regarded it as seditious, so, instead, he allowed it to be published in translation all over the world - a highly dangerous act.

1958. The life of this extraordinary book enters the realms of the spy novel. The CIA, recognising that the Cold War was primarily an ideological battle, published Doctor Zhivago in Russian and smuggled it into the Soviet Union. It was immediately snapped up on the black market. Pasternak was later forced to renounce the Nobel Prize in Literature, igniting worldwide political scandal.

With first access to previously classified CIA files, The Zhivago Affair gives an irresistible portrait of Pasternak, and takes us deep into the Cold War, back to a time when literature had the power to shake the world.

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About Author
Peter Finn

PETER FINN is national security editor for The Washington Post and previously served as the Post’s bureau chief in Moscow.

Petra Couvée

PETRA COUVÉE is a writer and translator, and teaches at Saint Petersburg State University.

Book Review

A galloping page-turner and a stark picture of a nation ruled by terror and unreason, which reads like a sinister rewrite of Alice in Wonderland -John Carey ― Sunday Times

Packed with fascinating detail … vibrant authenticity and calm analysis -Claire Morrall ― Independent on Sunday

Fascinating… [Finn and Couvée] manage to shed new light on both the period and the characters involved -Virginia Rounding ― Financial Times

A compelling, seductively written tale of Cold War censorship and paranoia -Kate Williams ― Independent

Excellent, superbly researched, and as exciting in its way as any Cold War thriller. Pasternak himself emerges clearly and strongly in all his complexity. This was the most important literary controversy of the post-war world, and Finn and Couvée have presented it with immense care and colour. The aftermath of the affair still has resonance even now -John Simpson

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AuthorPeter Finn
PublisherHarvill Secker
Publication date19 June 2014
LanguageEnglish
Number of page 368 pages
Product Dimensions 15.3 x 2.8 x 23.4 cm
BindingPaperback
ISBN9781846558856

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In the box1 x Main Product
Weight0.5830

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