Pasternak’s neighbour had been executed with a bullet to the head for publishing material that denounced Stalin’s orders as “the castration of art.”
For 10 years he toiled away at Doctor Zhivago, his one and only novel, but took only hesitant steps toward publication. To tailor his art to the demands of the state was a sin against his genius, he proclaimed. The Soviet Union allowed writers an elevated status, but expected from them fiction that celebrated Communism. The story starts when Russian poet Boris Pasternak disobeyed Soviet authorities and let an Italian businessman publish his epic love story, Doctor Zhivago. THE ZHIVAGO AFFAIR: THE KREMLIN, THE CIA, AND THE BATTLE OVER A FORBIDDEN BOOK
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