The CIA's Favorite Novel

June 25, 2014 Topic: HistorySociety Region: soviet unionRussia

The CIA's Favorite Novel

Why the CIA helped sneak Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago into the Soviet Union—and how the censors ultimately won.

 

Christian Caryl is a senior fellow at the Legatum Institute in London and a contributing editor at The National Interest and Foreign Policy.