04506cam a2200793 4500 468420171 TxAuBib 20201029120000.0 ||||||s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307908018 0307908011 B00HKVE1K2 Amazon 7b09661e-ac11-41a9-869f-325e8f2ae42b OverDrive (Reserve ID) 221370 221370 221370 1509023 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Finn, Peter. The Zhivago Affair [Libby] : The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2014. politics. Biography. autobiographies. russian history. World History. Autobiography. International Politics. Geopolitics. cyber warfare. Stalingrad. biographies. CIA. History. cyber security. government. political philosophy. literature. political science. world politics. history books. enhanced interrogation. political books. historical books. History of Russia. gifts for history buffs. Literary gifts. war books. biographies of famous people. literary biographies. CIA books. history gifts. history buff gifts. dr zhivago. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 17MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. History. Politics. Nonfiction. HTML:<p><i>Drawing on newly declassified government files, this is the dramatic story of how a forbidden book in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West.<br /></i><br /> In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout took a train to a village just outside Moscow to visit Russia's greatest living poet, Boris Pasternak. He left carrying the original manuscript of Pasternak's first and only novel, entrusted to him with these words: "This is <i>Doctor Zhivago.</i> May it make its way around the world." Pasternak believed his novel was unlikely ever to be published in the Soviet Union, where the authorities regarded it as an irredeemable assault on the 1917 Revolution. But he thought it stood a chance in the West and, indeed, beginning in Italy, <i>Doctor Zhivago</i> was widely published in translation throughout the world.<br /> <br /> From there the life of this extraordinary book entered the realm of the spy novel. The CIA, which recognized that the Cold War was above all an ideological battle, published a Russian-language edition of <i>Doctor Zhivago</i> and smuggled it into the Soviet Union. Copies were devoured in Moscow and Leningrad, sold on the black market, and passed surreptitiously from friend to friend. Pasternak's funeral in 1960 was attended by thousands of admirers who defied their government to bid him farewell. The example he set launched the great tradition of the writer-dissident in the Soviet Union.<br /> <br /> In <i>The Zhivago Affair,</i> Peter Finn and Petra Couvée bring us intimately close to this charming, passionate, and complex artist. First to obtain CIA files providing concrete proof of the agency's involvement, the authors give us a literary thriller that takes us back to a fascinating period of the Cold War—to a time when literature had the power to stir the world.<br /> <i>(With 8 pages of black-and-white illustrations.)</i></p>. Media Type: eBook. National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2020-12-28 22:00:03. Couvée, Petra. https://samples.overdrive.com/zhivago-affair?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/zhivago-affair?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/zhivago-affair?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)