WASHINGTON (Reuters) - CIA officials had rave reviews for Boris Pasternak's classic Russian novel "Doctor Zhivago" - not for its literary merit but as a propaganda weapon in the Cold War, the ...

The Soviet Union martyred many of its writers, sentencing some to labor camps or mental wards and shooting others outright. A subtler literary violence sits at the heart of "The Zhivago Affair: The ...

Julie Christie remains as magnetic as ever in the mammoth big screen adaptation of Boris Pasternak’s once dangerous novel ...

Under a white birch tree near a brook sat a young man writing poetry. Occasionally, when the words on paper somehow refused to echo the music in his mind, he wept. The place was Molodi, a village 38 ...

“The judge found copyright was capable of subsisting in just a few lines of a translation if it ‘contains elements which are the expression of the intellectual creation of the author of the work.’” ...