Originally published in Sept. 1958 this is the worn dust jacket from 14th Impression April 1959Most
Originally published in Sept. 1958 this is the worn dust jacket from 14th Impression April 1959Most people think of Doctor Zhivago as a love story. But this sweeping epic tells us much about the Russian revolution and its aftermath. It was banned in the USSR until 1988 for its underlying criticism of the Bolshevik party.The Book was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and i believe it was banned in Russia until as late as 1988.On an unrelated subject Pasternak is Russian for Parsnip -- source link
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