In the KGB’s Crosshairs. New Soviet documents on the Pasternak and Ivinskaya cases

In the past three decades there has been renewed interest in the events that surrounded the publication of Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago and its aftermath, which affected Pasternak as well as his companion O. Ivinskaya and her daughter I. Emelianova.

In this book, Mancosu dramatically increases our knowledge of the most complex literary-political case of the twentieth century by publishing for the first time, among other things, a large selection of KGB documents related to the Pasternak and Ivinskaya cases.