Perhaps this is the last literary secret of the twentieth century, around which there is a conspiracy of silence. Everyone knows that Boris Pasternak’s main book was banned in the author’s homeland, and the writer had to give the manuscript to Western publishers. The release of Doctor Zhivago in Italian, and then in French, German, and English was sharply unpleasant for Soviet agitprop, but not yet tragic. The main forces of the Central Committee, the KGB and the Writers' Union were thrown into preventing Russian publication. American intelligence (CIA) decided to print the book in the West at its own expense. This operation was prepared for a long time and carefully and was carried out in the deepest secrecy. Even fifty years later, most of those involved in the operation do not know the full picture. Cold War historian and journalist Ivan Tolstoy devoted twenty years to uncovering this detective story...