Because of the enduring appeal of the novel and a 1965 film based on it, “Doctor Zhivago” remains a landmark work of fiction. Yet few readers know the trials of its birth and how the novel ...

At the same time, Doctor Zhivago was not a book with only propagandistic value. It was, and is, a book with great spiritual value. The character of Zhivago is a witness to historical change, ...

These twin storms feed into Boris's work on "Doctor Zhivago." The author's talent provides him with a certain degree of protection even as colleagues are snatched up, tortured and executed around him.

“Doctor Zhivago,” which purports to be adapted from Boris Pasternak’s 1957 novel of Russian life before and after the October Revolution but in fact appears to be based on David Lean’s ...

Boris Pasternak’s classic novel caused him endless trouble in Russia even as it won him acclaim abroad, where his abiding fans included the CIA, which used the book as a propaganda tool.

Doctor Zhivago was her favorite novel, so Jones decided he would make himself an expert in all things Zhivago. He read it not once, not twice, but three times, ...

When Boris Pasternak finished his novel “Dr. Zhivago” in 1956, Soviet authorities refused to publish the tale of an individual’s struggle amid the Russian Revolution. A new book, “The ...

Welcome to "Saturday Night at the Movies." I'm your host, Glenn Holland. This evening's film is the epic historical romance "Doctor Zhivago," based on the 1956 novel by Boris Pasternak.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – CIA officials had rave reviews for Boris Pasternak’s classic Russian novel “Doctor Zhivago” – not for its literary merit but as a propaganda weapon in the Cold War ...

The book and movie, Doctor Zhivago, show the passionate love between Yuri Zhivago and Lara, the nurse for whom he betrays his wife. Set between the Russian revolution and the Second World War, ...

A secret package arrived at CIA headquarters in January 1958. Inside were two rolls of film from British intelligence – pictures of the pages of a Russian-language novel titled Doctor Zhivago.