Doctor Zhivago , the novel by Boris Pasternak, becomes an ideological weapon in the middle of the Cold War: an Italian publishing agent secretly takes the book, which has been blacklisted by the Kremlin, out of the country. It quickly becomes a global success in the West. From then on, events come thick and fast. The CIA publishes a Russian version of Doctor Zhivago and smuggles it into Moscow in order to weaken the Soviet regime. A propaganda battle begins that puts the author Pasternak's life in danger. In their book about the Zhivago affair, Peter Finn and Petra Couveé brilliantly unravel the dangerous confusion surrounding ideology, power and control. They were given access to the CIA files for the first time, researched Russian archives and spoke to survivors.
Group
Books (first-hand)
Author
Finn, P./Couvee, P.
Title
Die Affäre Schiwago. Der Kreml, die CIA und der Kampf um ein verbotenes Buch
Details
16 pages with bw-illus.
State
new
Herder Verlag GmbH Hermann-Herder-Str. 4 79104 Freiburg Deutschland
