It was deemed anti-Soviet by the authorities and multiple members of the public. However, there are passages dated back to 1910s and 1920s. The novel is named after its protagonist, Yuri Zhivago, a physician and poet, and takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and World War II. Most of the novel was written between 19. However, the fact there were not one but two editions sponsored by CIA, one of which was published under the guise of a fake publishing house? That was new to me. Yes, I know some of the book’s history and the Nobel Prize nomination. I cannot say that I knew the full story of Doctor Zhivago and its different editions. In 1957 an operation was launched to publish and spread among the Soviet citizens a Russian-language edition of one of the most explosive works of Boris Pasternak. That’s what is written at the beginning of the CIA Library page devoted Doctor Zhivago.
– Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago They overturn the old order in a few hours or days, the whole upheaval takes a few weeks or at most years, but the fanatical spirit that inspired the upheavals is worshiped for decades thereafter, for centuries. But revolutions are made by fanatical men of action with one-track mind, geniuses in their ability to confine themselves to a limited field. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres, are history’s organic agents, its yeast.
History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. While browsing the stalls at the book market in the Hague, I have recently found a remnant of the ideological war that had crushed many lives, including the life of Boris Pasternak, the author of the literary work in question.
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