The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book (Hardcover)

Contents Prologue "This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world." 3 Chapter 1 "The roof over the whole of Russia has been torn off." 19 Chapter 2 "Pasternak, without realizing it, entered the personal life of Stalin." 31 Chapter 3 "I have arranged to meet you in a novel." 47 Chapter 4 "You are aware of the anti--Soviet nature of the novel?" 61 Chapter 5 "Until it is finished, I am a fantastically, manically unfree man." 75 Chapter 6 "Not to publish a novel like this would constitute a crime against culture." 85 Chapter 7 "If this is freedom seen through Western eyes, well, I must say we have a different view of it." 99 Chapter 8 "We tore a big hole in the Iron Curtain." 115 Chapter 9 "We'll do it black." 129 Chapter 10 "He also looks the genius: raw nerves, misfortune, fatality." 147 Chapter 11 "There would be no mercy, that was clear." 161 Chapter 12 "Pasternak's name spells war." 179 Chapter 13 "I am lost like a beast in an enclosure." 197 Chapter 14 "A college weekend with Russians" 211 Chapter 15 "An unbearably blue sky" 227 Chapter 16 "It's too late for me to express regret that the book wasn't published." 243 Afterword 263 Acknowledgments 267 A Note on Sources 271 Notes 275 Bibliography 323 Index 335