The Zhivago affair: the Kremlin, the CIA, and the battle over a forbidden book

Prologue :"This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world."

"The roof over the whole of Russia has been torn off."

"Pasternak, without realizing it, entered the personal life of Stalin."

"I have arranged to meet you in a novel."

"You are aware of the anti-Soviet nature of the novel?"

"Until it is finished, I am a fantastically, manically unfree man."

"Not to publish a novel like this would constitute a crime against culture."

"If this is freedom seen through Western eyes, well, I must say we have a different view of it."

"We tore a big hole in the Iron Curtain."

"We'll do it black."

"He also looks the genius: raw nerves, misfortune, fatality."

"There would be no mercy, that was clear."

"Pasternak's name spells war."

"I am lost like a beast in an enclosure."

"A college weekend with Russians"

"An unbearably blue sky"

"It's too late for me to express regret that the book wasn't published."