FROM AWARD-WINNING TRANSLATORS RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY Doctor Zhivago is the epic novel of Russia in the throes of revolution and one of the grea

An epic novel of Russia before and during the Revolution.

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 ideolog

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