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

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

Finn, Peter 1962- (Author). Couvée, Petra. (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 9780307908001 (hard cover : alkaline paper) :
  • Physical Description: print
    352 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, 2013.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Prologue: This is Doctor Zhivago : may it make its way around the world -- The roof over the whole of Russia has been torn off -- Pasternak, without realizing it, entered the personal life of Stalin -- I have arranged to meet you in a novel -- You are aware of the anti-Soviet nature of the novel? -- Until it is finished, I am a fantastically, manically unfree man -- Not to publish a novel like this would constitute a crime against culture -- If this is freedom seen through Western eyes, well I must say we have a different view of it -- We tore a big hole in the Iron Curtain -- We'll do it black -- He also looks the genius : raw nerves, misfortune, fatality -- There would be no mercy, that was clear -- Pasternak's name spells war -- I am caught like a beast at bay -- A college weekend with Russians -- An unbearably blue sky -- It's too late for me to express regret that the book wasn't published -- Afterword.
Subject: Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich -- 1890-1960
Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich -- 1890-1960 -- Censorship
Authors, Russian -- 20th century -- Biography
Dissenters -- Soviet Union -- Biography
Prohibited books -- Soviet Union -- History
Politics and literature -- Soviet Union -- History
United States. -- Central Intelligence Agency -- History -- 20th century
Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States
United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1953-1985

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  • 7 of 7 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
Prince Rupert Library 891.73 Finn (Text) 33294001903210 Adult Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -

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