by Peter Finn
official attitudes toward, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 5.1, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 14.1, 14.2
official surveillance of, 7.1, 16.1
and Olga, see Ivinskaya, Olga
opinions expressed openly by, 2.1, 7.1, 10.1, 12.1, 13.1
other-worldliness of, 1.1, 7.1
personal safety considerations of, 4.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1
as poet, see Pasternak, Boris, poems written by
political attacks on, prl.1, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1, 7.2, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 14.1
political victims assisted by, 2.1, 3.1, 5.1, 11.1
and Revolution
risks taken by, prl.1, prl.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 7.1, 7.2, 10.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1
royalties due to, 7.1, 13.1, 13.2, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5, 16.6
sisters in England, prl.1, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 7.1, 10.1, 13.1, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1
and Stalin, prl.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 4.1
state contract with, 7.1, 12.1
survival of, prl.1, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 5.1, 14.1
thoughts of suicide, 11.1, 13.1
threats of exile, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1
torn between two families, 4.1, 5.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 15.1
as translator, prl.1, prl.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 7.1, 11.1, 13.1
words of support to, 6.1, 7.1, 12.1, 13.1, 15.1
and writers’ union, see Union of Soviet Writers
and Zinaida, see Pasternak, Zinaida
Pasternak, Boris, poems written by, prl.1, 2.1, 3.1
“After the Storm,”
“August,”
“Autumn,”
denunciation of, 2.1, 3.1
“Earth,”
“God’s World,”
“Hamlet,” 15.1, aft.1
“Lieutenant Schmidt,”
“Mary Magdalene,”
My Sister Life (Summer 1917), 1.1, 2.1, 2.2
negotiations for publication of, 6.1, 6.2
Nobel nominations for, prl.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 11.2
“The Nobel Prize,” 13.1, 14.1
official confiscation of
official rejection of, 3.1, 7.1
“O Had I Known,”
Over the Barriers
popularity of, prl.1, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 11.1, 11.2
posthumous publication of
prose as continuation of
recited at his funeral, 15.1, aft.1
royalties for
Second Birth, 12.1, 15.1
A Second Book of Russian Verse
“Soul,”
Twin in the Storm Clouds
“The Wedding Party,”
“A Winter Night,”
in Zhivago, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2, 15.1, 15.2
Pasternak, Josephine (sister), 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 3.1, 7.1
Pasternak, Leonid (father), 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 5.1
Pasternak, Leonid (son), 2.1, 5.1, 6.1, 11.1, 12.1, 15.1, 16.1
Pasternak, Lydia (sister), 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 7.1, 10.1, 15.1, 15.2
Pasternak, Olga (cousin)
Pasternak, Rozalia Kaufman (mother), 1.1, 2.1
Pasternak, Yevgeni (son), 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 6.1, 11.1, 15.1, 16.1
Pasternak, Zinaida (second wife), 1.1, 11.1, 14.1
and Boris’s affairs, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 12.1, 13.1, 15.1
and Boris’s death, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4
and Boris’s health, 7.1, 10.1, 13.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
and Boris’s writing, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 13.1, 16.1
death of
finances of
and foreign visitors, 14.1, 16.1
health of, 16.1, 16.2
and Nobel Prize, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
and political repercussions, prl.1, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 6.1, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1
Pasternak family
hardships in civil war
Moscow apartment of, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1
and October Revolution
prominence of
and royalties due
Patch, Isaac, 8.1
Paustovsky, Konstantin, 12.1, 13.1, 15.1
Pearson, Drew
Peltier, Hélène
Penkovsky, Oleg
Peredelkino
foreign visitors to, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, 6.1, 7.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1
KGB informers in
Pasternak’s dacha in, prl.1, 5.1, 12.1
Pasternak’s funeral in
Pasternak’s life in
as writers’ colony, prl.1, 11.1
Petrograd (Saint Petersburg), Revolution in
Pilnyak, Boris, prl.1, prl.2, 2.1, 2.2, 7.1, 11.1
Pincus, Walter
Pirelli, Giovanni Battista
Poggioli, Renato
Polevoi, Boris, 5.1, 10.1, 10.2
Polikarpov, Dmitri
and Ivinskaya, 6.1, 7.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 14.1
and Nobel Prize, 10.1, 11.1
and Pasternak, 7.1, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1
and Pasternak’s finances, 13.1, 13.2, 16.1
and writers’ union, 11.1, 11.2
and Zhivago, 6.1, 7.1, 10.1, 10.2
Politburo, 2.1, 2.2, 6.1
Polivanov, Mikhail
Ponti, Carlo
Posnova, Irina, 9.1, 9.2
Pound, Ezra, 8.1, 10.1
Prague Spring
Pravda, 2.1, 5.1, 5.2
and Nobel Prize, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1
Pasternak attacked in, 3.1, 11.1
Pasternak’s letter published in, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1
Pravdukhin, Valerian
Prescott, Orville
Priestley, J. B.
Prishvin, Mikhail
Prishvina, Valeria
Proust, Marcel, 10.1, 14.1
Proyart, Jacqueline de, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 16.1
Publications Development Corporation
Pushkin, Alexander, 4.1, 6.1, 14.1, 15.1
Rachmaninov, Sergei
Radio Free Europe
Radio Liberation/Liberty, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2
Radio London
Radio Moscow, prl.1, 6.1, 16.1
Radio Warsaw
Rassokhina, Marina
Rausen Bros.
Reisch, Alfred A.
Remarque, Erich Maria
Remnick, David
Revolutionary Military Council
Reznikov, Daniil
Richter, Svyatoslav, 5.1, 15.1
Ridder, Peter de, 9.1, 9.2
Rippelino, Angelo
Robotti, Paolo
Rodin, Auguste, The Thinker, 9.1
Romanov dynasty, end of
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, Social Contract, 6.1
Rudenko, Roman
Ruge, Gerd, 13.1, 13.2
Russell, Bertrand, 12.1, 16.1
Russell, Lord, The Scourge of the Swastika, 6.1
Russian Orthodoxy, 2.1, aft.1
Russian Revolution, see October Revolution
Russian State Library, Special Collections
Rykov, Aleksei, 2.1
Rylenkov, Nikolai
Salinger, J. D.
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Schewe, Heinz, 13.1, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
Schiller, Friedrich
Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr.
Schweitzer, Renate, 10.1, 15.1
Scriabin, Alexander, 1.1, 1.2
Secchia, Pietro
Selvinsky, Ilya
Semichastny, Vladimir, 12.1, 12.2, 16.1
Semyonov, Anatoli, 4.1, 4.2
Sergovantsev, Nikolai
Serov, Ivan
Seton-Watson, Hugh
Shakespeare, William, prl.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 5.1, 10.1, 13.1
Shalamov, Varlam, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1
Sharif, Omar
Shaw, George Bernard
Shelepin, Alexander
Shklovsky, Viktor, prl.1, 2.1, 2.2, 11.1
Sholokhov, Mikhail, 10.1, 16.1
And Quiet Flows the Don
Virgin Soil Up
turned
Shostakovich, Dmitri
Shtein, Alexander
Simmons, Ernest
Simonov, Konstantin, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1, 7.2
Sinclair, Upton, 12.1, 14.1
Singer, Isaac Bashevis
Sinyavsky, Andrei, 1.1, 7.1, 15.1, aft.1
Slonim, Marc
Słowacki, Juliusz
Slutsky, Boris
SMERSH
Smirnov, Sergei, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1
socialist realism, prl.1, 10.1, 14.1
Société d’Edition et d’Impression Mondiale
Socrate, Mario
Soloukhin, Vladimir
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 8.1, 13.1, aft.1
Gulag Archipelago
Nobel Prize awarded to
Soviet Union
anti-Semitism in, 4.1, 5.1, 11.1, 12.1
Bolsheviks in, 1.1, 2.1
censorship in, 14.1, 14.2, 16.1
CIA book program for, 8.1, aft.1
civil war in, prl.1, 2.1, 7.1, 10.1
classless culture in
and Cold War, see Cold War
Communist Party of, see Communist Party
conformity demanded in, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 5.2, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 14.1
and copyright, 9.1, 9.2, 13.1
cultural diplomacy of
disillusionment in, 1.1, 3.1, 10.1
Doctors’ Plot in
foreign publication of Soviet works, prl.1, prl.2, 7.1, 7.2, aft.1
glasnost in, 12.1, 16.1
Gulag, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, 3.1, 12.1, 16.1
international backlash against, 12.1, 14.1, aft.1
invasion of Hungary, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 12.1, 12.2
Khrushchev’s attack on Stalin
and Lend-Lease
literary establishment of, prl.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 11.1
literature in, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2, 11.1, 12.1
living in fear in, prl.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 4.1, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 14.1
national anthem of
and Nobel Prize, see Nobel Prize in Literature
Pasternak vilified in, prl.1, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 14.1
political denunciations in, 3.1, 11.1, 12.1
political purges in, prl.1, prl.2, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 10.1, 13.1, 14.1
propaganda produced in, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, 8.1, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2
Provisional Government
Revolution, see October Revolution
risks to writers in, prl.1, 7.1, 7.2
State Archives of Literature and Art
Supreme Soviet, 10.1, 14.1
writers executed in, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 5.1, 7.1
writers harassed in, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1
writers’ union, see Union of Soviet Writers
Zhivago banned in, prl.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Zhivago publication in, prl.1, 7.1, 7.2, 10.1, 16.1
Zhivago rejected in, prl.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1
Spano, Velio
Spassky, Sergei
Spellman, Cardinal Francis
Spender, Stephen, 3.1, 12.1
Der Spiegel
Stalin, Joseph, 3.1, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1
affairs of
and anti-Semitism
and assassination plots, 2.1, 5.1
campaigns of harassment, 3.1, 11.1
death of (1953), prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1, 12.1, 14.1
and Gulag
Khrushchev’s attack on
and Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact
and new literature, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, 1.1, 7.1
and Pasternak, prl.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 4.1
and Peredelkino
propaganda produced for, prl.1, prl.2
and purges, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 13.1, 14.1
rise to power, prl.1, 2.1
Trotsky vs.
wife of
Stalin, Svetlana Alliluyeva (daughter)
Stalin, Vasili (son)
Stalin Prize, prl.1, 5.1
Starostin, Anatoli, 7.1, 7.2
Stassen, Harold
State Department, U.S.
“The Inauguration of Organized Political Warfare,”
Stavsky, Vladimir, 2.1, 2.2
Steinbeck, John
Steinem, Gloria
Stone, Edward
Strada, Vittorio
Stravinsky, Igor
Sunday Times (London)
Surkov, Alexei
and Feltrinelli, 7.1, 10.1
and Ivinskaya, 4.1, 7.1, 16.1, 16.2
and Nobel Prize, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1
and Pasternak, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1, 7.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 13.1, 16.1, 16.2
as poet, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1
as state functionary, 3.1, 5.1, 7.1
and writers’ union, 7.1, 10.1, 14.1, 15.1
and Zhivago, 10.1, 10.2, 14.1
Suslov, Mikhail, 10.1, 12.1
Suvchinsky, Pyotr, 9.1, 10.1
Swedish Academy, see Nobel Prize for Literature
Tabidze, Galaktion
Tabidze, Nina, 3.1, 11.1, 11.2, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1
Tabidze, Titsian, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1
Tamm, Igor
Tarasenkov, Anatoli
Tatu, Michel
Thompson, John
Tikhonova, Maria
Tikunov, Vadim
Togliatti, Palmiro
Tolstoy, Leo, 3.1, 6.1, 8.1, 14.1
and Leonid Pasternak, 1.1, 5.1
Resurrection, 5.1, 10.1
War and Peace, 1.1, 10.1, 10.2
Tretyakov, Pavel
Trotsky, Alexandra
Trotsky, Leon, prl.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 11.1
Trotskyists, prl.1, 2.1, 9.1, 9.2
Truman, Harry S.
Tsvetaeva, Marina, prl.1, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 12.1
Tukhachevsky, Marshal Mikhail
Tvardovsky, Alexander, 5.1, 11.1
Union of Soviet Writers, prl.1, 1.1, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 9.1
and Brecht translations
and Communist Party
emergency meetings of, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2
expulsions from, 3.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 13.2
First Congress (1934), 2.1, 2.2, 8.1, 13.1
and Nobel Prize, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 16.1, 16.2
offer to reinstate Pasternak
Pasternak attacked by, 3.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2
and Pasternak’s funeral, 15.1, 15.2
Pasternak’s letter to
Third Congress
United States
and Soviet cultural exchange
and World’s Fair
Zhivago publication in, 9.1, 10.1
United States Information Agency (USIA)
University of Marburg
University of Michigan Press, 9.1, 9.2, 14.1, 14.2
van den Heuvel, C. C. (Kees)
van der Wilden, Joop, 9.1, 9.2, aft.1
Vanshenkin, Konstantin
Vasilyev, Yuri
Vidal, Gore
Vinogradov, Dmitri (Mitya), 4.1, 11.1, 16.1
Vinograd, Yelena
Vinokur, Grigori
Vladimirsky, Vladlen, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, 6.1
Vlasov, Andrei
Volchkov, Alexander
Volkonsky, Andrei
Voronkov, Konstantin
Voroshilov, Kliment
Vovsi, Dr. Miron
Voznesensky, Andrei, 5.1, 7.1, 13.1, 16.1
Vysotskaya, Ida
Walker, Samuel S. Jr., 8.1, 14.1
Washburn, Abbott
West, Rebecca
Wieck, Fred, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4
Williams, Alan Moray
Williams, William Carlos
Wilson, Edmund
Wisner, Frank, 8.1, 8.2
Wolff, Kurt, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 12.1, 13.1
World Festival of Youth and Students for Peace and Friendship (1959), 7.1, 14.1, aft.1
World’s Fair, Brussels (1958), prl.1, 9.1
Soviet pavilion in, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Soviet visitors to
U.S. pavilion in
Vatican pavilion “Civitas Dei,” prl.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 14.1, aft.1
Zhivago distribution in, 9.1, 9.2, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, aft.1
World War II, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2
Yashvili, Paolo, 2.1, 2.2
Yemelyanova, Irina (daughter of Olga Ivinskaya)
arrest and trial of, 16.1, 16.2
as go-between, 5.1, 12.1, 13.1, 16.1, 16.2
and Pasternak, 5.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2
persecution of, 16.1, 16.2
in prison, 16.1, 16.2
Yevtushenko, Yevgeni, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2, 12.1, 12.2, 16.1, 16.2
Yudina, Maria, 3.1, 15.1
Zabolotsky, Nikolai
Zang Kejia
Zanuck, Darryl F.
Zaslavsky, David
Zelinsky, Korneli, 3.1, 12.1
Zhdanov, Andrei, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1
Zhivago, Yuri (fictional character), 3.1, 16.1
as Pasternak’s alter ego, prl.1, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 7.1, 8.1, aft.1
story of, prl.1, 3.1, 5.1
Zinoviev, Grigory, 2.1, 2.2
Znamya (The Banner), prl.1, 2.1, 5.1, 6.1, 11.1
Zoshchenko, Mikhail, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1
Zubok, Vladislav
Zulueta, Philip de
Zveteremich, Pietro, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5
Photographic Credits
ill.1 Boris Pasternak with books and paintings: ITAR-TASS
ill.2 Pasternak and Kornei Chukovsky: ITAR-TASS
ill.3 Anna Akhmatova and Pasternak: ITAR-TASS
ill.4 Olga Ivinskaya in overcoat: Axel Springer AG, Berlin
ill.5 Young Olga Ivinskaya, wearing pearls: Irina Ivinskaya
ill.6 Giangiacomo Feltrinelli: Archivio Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore
ill.7 Alexei Surkov: ITAR-TASS
ill.8 Felix Morrow: Meghan Morrow
ill.9 Case of the CIA hardcover edition of Doctor Zhivago: Tim Gressie
ill.10 Title page of the CIA hardcover edition: Tim Gressie
ill.11 Title page of the miniature paperback edition: CIA Museum Collection
ill.12 Vatican Pavilion at the 1958 World’s Fair: www.studioclaerhout.be/Gent/Belgium
ill.13 Anders Österling: Kent Östlund/Scanpix Sweden/Sipa USA
ill.14 Pasternak near his home in the countryside: AP Photo/Harold K. Milks
ill.15 Dacha in the village of Peredelkino: AP Photo
ill.16 Pasternak reads telegrams with wife, Zinaida, friend Nina Tabidze: Bettmann/Corbis
ill.17 Olga Ivinskaya and her daughter, Irina, with Pasternak: Axel Springer AG, Berlin
ill.18 Cartoon by Bill Mauldin: © Bill Mauldin, 1958. Courtesy of the Bill Mauldin Estate LLC
ill.19 Front page of The Washington Post: The Washington Post; Bettmann/Corbis
