Doctor Zhivago

📖 T'he only truly great novel to come out of postrevolutionary Russia significantly appears first in translation, without the approval of the Russian Communist Party censors. But this sensational aspect should not obscure the fact that Doctor Zhivago is above all a stupendously rich and moving book. Like War and Peace, it evokes an historically crucial period in terms of a large variety of characters whose destinies are interwoven- railwaymen, farmers, intellectuals, merchants, lawyers, professors, students, soldiers, the well-to-do and the destitute.