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The book was discussed because its author, Boris Pasternak, was the cousin of Joe Pasternak (an early Hollywood executive). The CIA reportedly used Russian language copies of this novel as a literary weapon during the Cold War, distributing them in the USSR in the late 1950s to encourage questioning of the Soviet government.
And we know for a fact that he, too, worked with the CIA to popularize a book called Dr. Zhivago, which I should mention, that book was written by his Russian cousin.
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The book was discussed because its author, Boris Pasternak, was the cousin of Joe Pasternak (an early Hollywood executive). The CIA reportedly used Russian language copies of this novel as a literary weapon during the Cold War, distributing them in the USSR in the late 1950s to encourage questioning of the Soviet government.
And we know for a fact that he, too, worked with the CIA to popularize a book called Dr. Zhivago, which I should mention, that book was written by his Russian cousin.
Check out this 2014 headline from The Guardian pertaining to that book, Dr. Zhivago: It reads, the CIA used Dr. Zhivago as a literary weapon during the Cold War.
CIA began distributing copies of this book, Dr. Zhivago, throughout the USSR in the late 1950s as a weapon of war to make Soviets question their government.