The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book by Petra Couvée, Peter Finn

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

Petra Couvée, Peter Finn

352 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history reflective slow-paced
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Drawing on newly declassified government files, this is the dramatic 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 trai...

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