The Zhivago affair: the Kremlin, the CIA, and the battle over a forbidden book

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Draws on unique access to classified CIA files to document the role of Boris Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago" in promoting American Cold War agendas in the 1950s, revealing how the CIA helped publish the Soviet-banned book in Russian to an enthusiastic black-market audience.

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Authors, Russian
Authors, Russian -- 20th century -- Biography
Biography & Autobiography
Censorship
Dissenters
Dissenters -- Soviet Union -- Biography
Foreign relations
History
Nonfiction
Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich
Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, -- 1890-1960 -- Censorship
Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, -- 1890-1960. -- Doktor Zhivago
Politics
Politics and government
Politics and literature
Politics and literature -- Soviet Union -- History
Prohibited books
Prohibited books -- Soviet Union -- History
Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1953-1985
United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union
United States. -- Central Intelligence Agency -- History -- 20th century

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Vance, Simon,narrator
Couvée, Petra,author
Couvée, Petra
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9780307908001
9781622314362
9780307908018

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Censorship
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Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, -- 1890-1960. -- Doktor Zhivago
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