Finn, Peter, 1962-

The Zhivago affair : the Kremlin, the CIA, and the battle over a forbidden book / Peter Finn and Petra Couvée. - First Vintage Books edition. - 352 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-335) and index.

The 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.

9780345803191 (pbk.)


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


United States. Central Intelligence Agency --History--20th century.


Authors, Russian--20th century--Biography.
Dissenters--Soviet Union--Biography.
Prohibited books--History.--Soviet Union
Politics and literature--History.--Soviet Union
Autores rusos --Historia--Siglo XX.
Libros prohibidos


Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States.
United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.
Soviet Union--Politics and government--1953-1985.

PG 3476 / F514z 2015

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