Russia

Doctor Zhivago

by Boris Pasternak

Summary

A physician and poet witnesses the Russian Revolution and civil war, torn between two women and his artistic vocation. The Soviet government suppressed the novel; it was first published in Italy and won Pasternak the Nobel Prize he was forced to decline.

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Boris Pasternak

Russian poet and novelist (1890–1960) who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958, which he was forced to decline under Soviet pressure. His work bridges the Silver Age of Russian poetry and the Soviet era.

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1957
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Boris Pasternak