Moscow had hoped to avoid these precipitous outcomes by initially refusing to publish the novel two years earlier. Following the publication of Doctor Zhivago in Russian in 1958, Pasternak won the Nobel Prize for Literature, the popularity of the book skyrocketed, and the plight of Pasternak in the Soviet Union received global media attention. This collection provides a glimpse into a thoughtful plan to accomplish fast turn-around results without doing harm to foreign partners or Pasternak.
The Zhivago project was one of many CIA-supported covert publishing programs that involved distributing banned books, periodicals, pamphlets, and other materials to intellectuals in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The CIA has declassified 99 documents describing the CIA’s role publishing Boris Leonidovich Pasternak’s epic novel, Doctor Zhivago, for the first time in Russian in 1958 after it had been banned from being published in the Soviet Union. Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Doctor ZhivagoĬIA Publishes Doctor Zhivago in Russian and Exposes Life in USSR under Communism 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.
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