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

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

Petra Couvee, Peter Finn with Simon Vance (Narrator)

9 hours, 46 minutes • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history reflective slow-paced

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In May of 1956, an Italian publishing scout took a train to the Russian countryside to visit the country's most beloved poet, Boris Pasternak. He left concealing the original manuscript of Pasternak's much anticipated first novel, entrusted to him...

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