Word: pasternak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Premier Khrushchev's treatment of Boris Pasternak after the publication of Pasternak's Nobel Prize winning novel Doctor Zhivago is an example of what happens when a despot poses as an intellectual, James H. Bellington, Research Fellow in the Russian Research Center stated, at one of the four forums yesterday morning...
Despite the tempest Doctor Zhivago created, Billington emphasized that the book itself is not a predominantly political tract, "for Pasternak is not a tractical, didactic writer." But the passages which do give rise to anti-Communist sentiments, Billington continued, are the ones most quoted in Russia and in the West for political purposes...
...controversy over Zhivago implies a definite truth about the role of the dissenter in Russian society. The dissenter can "cheer slightly differently than his neighbors," Billington explained, but the role of the cheerleaders must be completely uniform. Pasternak, then, defied this uniformity in writing Zhivago...
...Pasternak, Billington feels, seems to have the solid support of all significant Russian authors. Very few of them signed a petition to expel Pasternak from the Writers Union and there has been much criticism levelled at the leader of the Soviet Youth Congress who had stated that "calling Pasternak a pig slanders...
Conspicuously not mentioned by Nikita Khrushchev was the best author Russia has, Nobel Laureate Boris Pasternak, but the message to him seemed to be: the heat...