![]() ![]() The journey to a rushed publication started two years previously in the USSR. ![]() The publication in Russian was facilitated by the CIA as part of an effort to embarass and ultimately to undermine the USSR, and several hundred copies were distributed via the Vatican's stall at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair. ![]() These were published by Mouton in the Netherlands - though they feature the Feltrinelli imprint - and are issued in their trademark, nondescript blue cloth. First edition: one of only 1,160 illegally printed copies in Russian of the novel which won Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) the Nobel Prize. ![]()
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