Word: zhivago
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...year ago Pasternak arranged with Italian Publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli for the simultaneous publication in Russia and Italy of Dr. Zhivago, a vast (710 pages), panoramic novel of life in Russia from 1903 to 1929. Feltrinelli's agent brought a manuscript to Italy, and a translation was made. Meanwhile the powerful Union of Soviet Writers got hold of the novel, decided that its "cumulative effect" was to depict the Bolshevik revolution "as if it were the great crime in Russian history." Extensive rewriting was "suggested...
...most accounts a literary work of the first order, Pasternak's novel leads his physician-hero, Dr. Yuri Andreevich Zhivago, through World War I and the revolution to his death in 1929. It deals harshly with Communism's first years. Says one character: "I think that collectivization was a wrong measure and that it failed, though the error could not be acknowledged. To conceal the failure by every means that terrorism can suggest, it is necessary to make people learn not to think and to judge, forcing them to see things that do not exist and proving...