Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Prologue

“This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world.”

Chapter 1

“The roof over the whole of Russia has been torn off.”

Chapter 2

“Pasternak, without realizing it, entered the personal life of Stalin.”

Chapter 3

“I have arranged to meet you in a novel.”

Chapter 4

“You are aware of the anti-Soviet nature of the novel?”

Chapter 5

“Until it is finished, I am a fantastically, manically unfree man.”

Chapter 6

“Not to publish a novel like this would constitute a crime against culture.”

Chapter 7

“If this is freedom seen through Western eyes, well, I must say we have a different view of it.”

Chapter 8

“We tore a big hole in the Iron Curtain.”

Chapter 9

“We’ll do it black.”

Chapter 10

“He also looks the genius: raw nerves, misfortune, fatality.”

Chapter 11

“There would be no mercy, that was clear.”

Chapter 12

“Pasternak’s name spells war.”

Chapter 13

“I am lost like a beast in an enclosure.”

Chapter 14

“A college weekend with Russians”

Chapter 15

“An unbearably blue sky”

Chapter 16

“It’s too late for me to express regret that the book wasn’t published.”

Afterword

Acknowledgments

A Note on Sources

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Illustration Credits

A Note About the Authors

Illustrations