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"Beautifully crafted and scrupulously researched...Finn and Couvée have taken a complex and difficult history with many moving parts and turned it into a kind of intellectual thriller. They have to control a lot of information, yet they keep the book well-paced and often exciting. The Zhivago Affair is a prime example of hard work and fidelity to a good story."—Washington Post"A work of deep historical research that reads a little like Le Carré, this is the backstory of the foreign publication of Boris Pasternak’s Dr. Zhivago, and it bears its multiple burdens lightly: a sideways biography of Pasternak; a psychological history of Soviet Russia; a powerful argument for the book as literature; an entry into the too-small canon on the CIA’s role in shaping culture. In new reporting on the Agency’s distribution of the book behind enemy lines, the authors show how both sides in the Cold War used literary prestige as a weapon without resorting to cheap moral equivalency."—New York"Fascinating...Told in its entirety, the story of how Doctor Zhivago helped disrupt the Soviet Union holds some intriguing implications for the present and future of cultural conflict."—The Atlantic"The Zhivago Affair does a masterful job of putting flesh on the bare bones of a story that has been hinted at in the press for decades."—NPR"A rich and unanticipated story...[Finn and Couvée] demonstrate a sophisticated appreciation for an artistic quest that was haunted by dread, persecution, and loss. They also share an avid eye for detail...Finn and Couvée’s poignant depiction of Pasternak is the book’s greatest strength."—The Daily Beast"[Finn and Couvée's] riveting, well-researched book reads like a literary thriller...a fascinating essay on mid-century politics...illuminating, humane."—New Republic“An informative, fascinating, and often moving account of personal courage, espionage and propaganda, and the role of literature in the political struggle for the hearts and minds of people.”—Huffington Post"Crushingly poignant."—Knoxville News Sentinel"Thrilling...Deftly combining biography, cultural history and literary tittle-tattle, [Finn and Couvée] have shone a light on a shadowy operation...Crushingly poignant.”—Newsday"Brisk and thrilling...The authors use rich archival research, including previously classified CIA files, to depict the oppressive political conditions that gave rise to Pasternak’s masterpiece, and the international firestorm that occurred when the novel was banned in the Soviet Union. The book offers nuanced depictions of the people in Pasternak’s life, including his lover, Olga Ivinskaya, who championed his work and shared his torment at the hands of the KGB. The torturous ideological policing by the Soviets is discussed to great effect; for indeed, the tale of Doctor Zhivago itself is very much about the long psychic scar left by Russian Revolution. It’s a story expertly told by Finn and Couvée, who unsparingly present the role played by the Kremlin in persecuting Pasternak and his loved ones, as well as the role of the CIA in using his masterpiece in a game of ideological warfare—overall, a triumphant reminder that truth is sometimes gloriously stranger than fiction."—Publishers Weekly, starred review"A detailed reconstruction of one of the most fascinating of the Cold War’s cultural skirmishes...The Zhivago Affair ought to bring a new generation of readers to it, curious to know what kind of a novel could make a superpower tremble."—Tablet "A fast-paced political thriller about a book that terrified a nation."—Kirkus Reviews“A riveting account...[Finn and Couvéee] have drawn not only on archival documents and interviews with surviving actors in the international drama but also on newly declassified files of the Soviet, American, and Dutch intelligence services.”—Bookforum“It is quite simply a remarkable story and fully sourced book, the scholarship peerless but never eclipsing one amazingly humanist story of a towering figure of 20th century Russian literature.”—New York Journal of Books“With groundbreaking reporting and character-rich storytelling, Peter Finn and Petra Couvée uncover the high-stakes drama behind one of the Cold War’s strangest turning points. Passionately written and acutely aware of the historical context, The Zhivago Affair almost makes one nostalgic for a time when novels were so important that even the CIA cared about them.”—Ken Kalfus, author of A Disorder Peculiar to the Country “A thrilling literary espionage yarn, but much more than that. Finn and Couvée shed new light on the Cold War struggle for the hearts and minds of millions of people, introducing a cast of characters—poets and spies, idealists and cynics, politicians and dissidents—who could have stepped out of the pages of Doctor Zhivago itself.”—Michael Dobbs, author of Six Months in 1945: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman—from World War to Cold War “A sparkling and fascinating account of how one of the most important novels of the twentieth century found its way back to Russia, a juggernaut of truth thrust into the Soviet darkness. Finn and Couvée elegantly and authoritatively capture Pasternak’s brilliance, the courage of his friends, and the CIA’s hidden role in bringing the forbidden book to Russian readers.”—David E. Hoffman, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy “The most detailed account to date of the events that suddenly placed one of Russia’s greatest poets in the center of the struggle between Soviet and Western propaganda machines at the height of the Cold War. Pasternak’s personal courage in the face of this totally incongruous conflict is the quality that emerges most clearly from this well-paced narrative, which is especially commendable for its avoidance of all romantic exaggeration—a quality Pasternak himself strove for in Doctor Zhivago. The book is of great relevance today, when such conflicts seem (but only seem) to have disappeared.” —Richard Pevear, co-translator of Doctor Zhivago
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About the Author
Peter Finn is National Security Editor for The Washington Post and previously served as the Post’s bureau chief in Moscow. Petra Couvée is a writer and translator and teaches at Saint Petersburg State University.The Zhivago Affair is their first collaboration together.
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Product details
Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: Pantheon; 1st edition (June 17, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0307908003
ISBN-13: 978-0307908001
Product Dimensions:
6.4 x 1.3 x 9.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.3 out of 5 stars
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
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When the celebrated poet Boris Pasternak began the novel Doctor Zhivago in 1945, he and his fellow Russian writers were living under the terrifying, watchful eye of Joseph Stalin. Pasternak had lived through the exhilaration and the disillusionment of the 1917 October Revolution and he wanted to write a piece of fiction that would capture the events surrounding it, even if it meant revealing the historic flaws that continued to infect the repressive government under which he lived. When he finished Doctor Zhivago in 1955 it was (predictably) rejected by the Soviet press so Pasternak smuggled the manuscript into Italy to be translated and published. “It does not matter what might happen to me,†he told his friend, Isaiah Berlin. “My life is finished. The book is my last word to the civilized world.†Doctor Zhivago made its way around the globe at warp speed, coming full circle in 1958 when the CIA ’s Russian-language edition was smuggled back into the Soviet Union for Pasternak’s countrymen to read. Based on newly released documents, Finn and Couvée’s account reads like a spy thriller with a deeply flawed but heroic writer at its center. History, Cold War politics, romance, intrigue…this book-about-a-book packs a punch.
During the Cold War, the CIA was engaged in relentless global warfare with the Kremlin. The agency used a host of front organizations and phony foundations, spent many millions of dollars to fund concert tours, art exhibitions, magazines, academic research, student activities and book publishing. All theses were weapons in the covert action against the Soviet Union masterminded by George Kennan, who was the intellectual author behind this. One estimate says that some 10 million books and periodicals were distributed by the CIA in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. "Doctor Zhivago" was one of those books which was printed and distributed clandestinely in the main Russian cities.This book, which is just one episode in the colossal ideological battle between the two superpowers, is excellent and is very original. The authors have put in a tremendous effort in researching its topic, using many untapped archives and interviews. It reads like a fast best-selling political thriller. This is a fascinating account of the propaganda machines the USA used against the Eastern Bloc, showing Pasternak's and his friends' courage and it shows to what extent the battle for the minds of the readers in the East was conducted. It is also a detailed story about the cultural and intellectual background of the thirties to the fifties in the USSR.This battle over the publication of "Doctor Zhivago" was one of the first efforts by the CIA to leverage books as instruments of political warfare. It was Khrushchev himself who admitted in the end that the Russians "caused much harm to the Soviet Union "and added that he was "truly sorry for the way he behaved toward Pasternak".There were additional writers who followed Pasternak's way, among them Solzhenitsyn and Brodsky.This book is highly recommended.
This is a fascinating story that combines a mini-biography of Dr. Zhivago's writer, Boris Pasternak; intellectual life in the Soviet Union during the Cold War; and how on one of the best books of the 20th century overcame tremendous odds to become an international best seller. Particularly, interesting was how Pasternak was determined to see his book read on a worldwide basis with a love of his homeland, albeit not its government. After rejecting the Nobel prize, he could have accepted exile and riches in the West, but could not bring himself to leave Russia. That, of course, is the overview. Equally fascinating are the details of how the book found its way out of the Soviet Union; the interplay between Pasternak and other intellectuals; and a rather different family life. A good read.
This excellent tale of cold war intrigue and the misery of artistic life in the USSR, is a tribute to the foolishness of governments which try to suppress thought and artistic expression, and also is a tribute to the spirit of a great artist, Boris Pasternak, who persisted in the face of what he knew would be a terrible response, to get what he considered to be his masterpiece published in the west. The role played by the CIA in disseminating Russian language versions of the book and getting them back into the USSR is interesting, but is not the heart of what this book is about. At the end of the day, it is the story of how one great artist resisted the tyranny of the USSR, and also how the USSR made a mountain range out of a mountain in trying to suppress the book. It is a sad story, to me, but one that should be told, and I recommend the book most heartily.-
This is an interesting back story on Boris Pasternak. I had read Dr. Zzhivago when it first came out and it has been one of the best novels I have ever read in my 78 years on this earth. Getting the back story was fascinating, but it had too much detail for me. I got bogged down in the detail. Still I would rate if very high for new content about Pasternak and his family.
I thought this would be a book of Memoirs but had to get as it's my favorite.book and movie for 40 years! I loved rescinding this history of the book and how it got out of Russia. Pasternack seems like such a great man. Loved the book.
Very detailed account of the times and of the life of Pasternak after Dr. Zhivago was published. It is also a view into the general cultural life of Russia at that time. I was fascinated with the details of how the novel got back into Russia and the reaction to it. Pasternak's personal life is also detailed and almost as interesting as the information about the novel. I was not fully aware of what a highly respected and widely read poet Pasternak was. His treatment by the power structure and their incredible fear of his work are difficult to fathom. It is an in depth account of a great man who was also a great writer.
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