The dramatic, never-before-told story of how a forbidden book in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West.
In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout took a train to the Russian countryside to visit the country's most beloved poet, Boris Pasterna[...]

May 1956. A poet presses a manuscript into the hands of an Italian publishing scout with these words: 'This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world.' The poet was Boris Pasternak. Pasternak knew his novel would never be published in the Soviet Union as the authorities regarded it as [...]