The Resource The Zhivago affair : the Kremlin, the CIA, and the battle over a forbidden book, Peter Finn and Petra Couvee, (electronic resource)
The Zhivago affair : the Kremlin, the CIA, and the battle over a forbidden book, Peter Finn and Petra Couvee, (electronic resource)
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- Summary
- The dramatic, never-before-told story of how a forbidden book in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West. In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout took a train to the Russian countryside to visit the country's most beloved poet, Boris Pasternak. He left concealing the original manuscript of Pasternak's much anticipated first novel, entrusted to him with these words from the author: "This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world." Pasternak knew his novel would never be published in the Soviet Union, where the authorities regarded it as an assault on the 1917 Revolution, so he allowed it to be published in translation all over the world. But in 1958, the CIA, which recognized that the Cold War was above all an ideological battle, published Doctor Zhivago in Russian and smuggled it into the Soviet Union where it was snapped up on the black market and passed surreptitiously from friend to friend. Pasternak, whose funeral in 1960 was attended by thousands of readers who stayed for hours in defiance of the watching KGB, launched the great Soviet tradition of the writer-dissident. With sole access to otherwise classified CIA files, the authors give us an irresistible portrait of the charming and passionate Pasternak and a twisty thriller that takes readers back to a fascinating period of the Cold War, to a time when literature had power to shape the world
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Isbn
- 9780307908018
- Link
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- Label
- The Zhivago affair : the Kremlin, the CIA, and the battle over a forbidden book
- Title
- The Zhivago affair
- Title remainder
- the Kremlin, the CIA, and the battle over a forbidden book
- Statement of responsibility
- Peter Finn and Petra Couvee
- Subject
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- Dissenters -- Soviet Union -- Biography
- Electronic books
- Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960
- Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960 -- Censorship
- Politics and literature -- Soviet Union -- History
- Prohibited books -- Soviet Union -- History
- Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States
- Authors, Russian -- 20th century -- Biography
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union
- United States, Central Intelligence Agency -- History -- 20th century
- Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1953-1985
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The dramatic, never-before-told story of how a forbidden book in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West. In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout took a train to the Russian countryside to visit the country's most beloved poet, Boris Pasternak. He left concealing the original manuscript of Pasternak's much anticipated first novel, entrusted to him with these words from the author: "This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world." Pasternak knew his novel would never be published in the Soviet Union, where the authorities regarded it as an assault on the 1917 Revolution, so he allowed it to be published in translation all over the world. But in 1958, the CIA, which recognized that the Cold War was above all an ideological battle, published Doctor Zhivago in Russian and smuggled it into the Soviet Union where it was snapped up on the black market and passed surreptitiously from friend to friend. Pasternak, whose funeral in 1960 was attended by thousands of readers who stayed for hours in defiance of the watching KGB, launched the great Soviet tradition of the writer-dissident. With sole access to otherwise classified CIA files, the authors give us an irresistible portrait of the charming and passionate Pasternak and a twisty thriller that takes readers back to a fascinating period of the Cold War, to a time when literature had power to shape the world
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- RECBK
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Finn, Peter
- Dewey number
- 891.73/42
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PG3476.P27
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Couvée, Petra
- OverDrive, Inc
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich
- Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich
- United States
- Authors, Russian
- Dissenters
- Prohibited books
- Politics and literature
- Soviet Union
- United States
- Soviet Union
- Label
- The Zhivago affair : the Kremlin, the CIA, and the battle over a forbidden book, Peter Finn and Petra Couvee, (electronic resource)
- Link
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- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Color
- multicolored
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780307908018
- Isbn Type
- (electronic bk.)
- Level of compression
- unknown
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 7b09661e-ac11-41a9-869f-325e8f2ae42b
- Publisher number
- EB00180266
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)869304977
- (OCoLC)ocn869304977
- 999984
- Label
- The Zhivago affair : the Kremlin, the CIA, and the battle over a forbidden book, Peter Finn and Petra Couvee, (electronic resource)
- Link
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- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Color
- multicolored
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780307908018
- Isbn Type
- (electronic bk.)
- Level of compression
- unknown
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 7b09661e-ac11-41a9-869f-325e8f2ae42b
- Publisher number
- EB00180266
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)869304977
- (OCoLC)ocn869304977
- 999984
Subject
- Dissenters -- Soviet Union -- Biography
- Electronic books
- Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960
- Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960 -- Censorship
- Politics and literature -- Soviet Union -- History
- Prohibited books -- Soviet Union -- History
- Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States
- Authors, Russian -- 20th century -- Biography
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union
- United States, Central Intelligence Agency -- History -- 20th century
- Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1953-1985
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