Zhivago Affair

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 [...]
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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 seditious.