The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the Cia, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book: The Kremlin, the Cia, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book

The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the Cia, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book: The Kremlin, the Cia, and the Battle Over a Forbidden BookThe Zhivago Affair is the dramatic, never before told story drawing on newly declassified files of how a forbidden book became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West. In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout went to a village outside Moscow to visit Russia's greatest living poet, Boris Pasternak. He left carrying the manuscript of Pasternak's only novel, suppressed by Soviet authorities. From there the life of this