It's worth going through the report. Pasternak himself had nothing whatever to do with the CIA, as the report reveals.
The annal of publishing the epic novel, which contains no explicit criticism of the Russian Revolution and the regime(s) that followed thereafter, provides us a telling glimpse into the sheer monstrous nature of the regime. One has to keep in mind that it all happened under Nikita Khrushchev - after "de-Stalinisation". (One may, in this context, also like to recall that, in the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels had envisioned that post-Revolution, under the rule of the victorious working class, "the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all"!) Reproduced below are brief excerpts from the report. D'Angelo [an Italian Communist who had worked in Moscow as a journalist and a part-time literary agent for a publisher] wrote in his book, The Pasternak Case <http://www.pasternakbydangelo.com/?page_id=2&lang=en>, about going to meet the 66-year-old author at his country house in Peredelkino, a writers' colony outside Moscow, in May 1956. "Pasternak is in the fenced-in garden, wearing a jacket and pants of homespun cloth, perhaps intent on pruning a plant. When he notices us [i.e. D'Angelo and another fellow Italian Communist, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli], he approaches with a broad smile, throws open the little garden gate, and extends his hand. His grip is nice and firm," he wrote. As he hands D'Angelo the manuscript, Pasternak says: "May it make its way around the world." He then adds, perhaps ironically: "You are hereby invited to watch me face the firing squad." .... Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in October 1958, but forced by the Soviet authorities into renouncing it. Though he was vilified in the Soviet press, from then on, thousands turned out for his funeral when he died of lung cancer, at the age of 70, two years later. Doctor Zhivago has sold millions of copies worldwide, and in 1965 an Oscar-winning film version was released. But it was not published in the Soviet Union until 1988, during the *perestroika* [in fact what was actually relevant is *glasnost*] reforms ushered in by Mikhail Gorbachev. The USSR collapsed three years later. Sukla On 24 June 2014 07:06, Saurav Datta <[email protected]> wrote: > I saw this story on the BBC News iPad App and thought you should see it: > > How the CIA secretly published Dr Zhivago > > How the epic Russian novel Doctor Zhivago became a secret weapon in the > CIA's Cold War propaganda battle with the Soviet Union. > > Read more: > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27942646 > > > ** Disclaimer ** > The BBC is not responsible for the content of this e-mail, and anything > written in this e-mail does not necessarily reflect the BBC's views or > opinions. Please note that neither the e-mail address nor name of the > sender have been verified. > > > Sent from my iPad > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Free Binayak Sen" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/free-binayaksen. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
