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The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, The CIA, And The Battle Over A Forbidden Book (2014)

by Peter Finn(Favorite Author)

3.73 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0307908003 (ISBN13: 9780307908001)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Pantheon

review 1: I got this out of the library based on an LA Times review, I think, and expected a caper thriller about the CIA publishing and distributing Zhivago in the USSR. That's the selling point, but it has very little to do with this book. As a thorough history of the writing and publication of Zhivago, and of the last 20 years of Pasternak's life, and suppression of the arts in the former Soviet Union, it's great, and probably good history, but exciting it's not. I'm swearing off non-fiction again—too dull.
review 2: An exceptionally well written book covering the life of Boris Pasternak and history of Dr. Zhivago. Sometimes the number of characters was a little hard to follow (Pasternak traveled in wide circles), but it is fitting for a book covering Russian lit... moreerature. The look behind the publication and intrigue that went with it was really fascinating. It was well presented, with a good balance of detail and movement to make you feel like you learned something while staying interesting. As my life and the existence of the Soviet Union did not coincide, I don't have any real experience with the Cold War. The presentation of this book not only shared a story of a Russian novelist and poet, but also a case study of sorts of the Cold War. less

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