Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak
Love and revolution eat each other alive.
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you want to understand what the Russian Revolution actually cost the people who lived through it
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Yuri Zhivago is a doctor and poet swept through the Russian Revolution, the civil war, and Stalinist terror — the 20th century's full weight landing on one man's life and one impossible love. Pasternak wrote this in secret and smuggled it to Italy for publication in 1957. The Soviet Union expelled him from the Writers' Union and forced him to refuse the Nobel Prize. The novel is the dispatch from inside a civilization tearing itself apart — not the history of events but the history of what those events did to people who just wanted to live.
Where This Book Lives
- Setting
- Russia • Eastern Europe
- Voice
- Written by a Russian author
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