Robert Chandler

Doctor Zhivago’s long, dark shadow

A review of The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book, by Peter Finn and Petra Couvée. Boris Pasternak really did defeat the Soviet censors (and not just because he was Stalin's pen-pal). But no one was allowed to do the same again

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

    Peter Finn and Petra Couvée

    Harvill Secker, pp. 352

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