Afera Živago: Kremlj, CIA i bitka za jednu zabranjenu knjigu

The story of Boris Pasternak's famous novel that became a secret weapon in the ideological struggle between East and West. The story of this famous case begins in May 1956 when an Italian publisher traveled by train to a distant Russian province with the intention of visiting one of the most popular Russian poets, Boris Pasternak, who entrusted him with his first, eagerly awaited novel with the words: "This is Doctor Zhivago. May God grant that it may travel the world." Pasternak knew all too well that his novel would never be published in the USSR, where the authorities considered it an attack on the Revolution, which is why he approved its publication abroad. But the CIA, which considered the Cold War primarily an ideological struggle, published the novel in Russian in 1958 and smuggled it into the USSR, where it was snatched up on the black market and stolen from hand to hand. The authors of this book, the only ones who had access to the CIA's secret files, give us an exciting portrait of the charming and passionate Pasternak, but also a tense thriller that gives us the opportunity to get acquainted with the fascinating time of the Cold War and takes us to a time when literature had the power to change the world.