This podcast series is a journey through history, one guided by the lyrics of Billy Joel’s song “We Didn’t Start the Fire”. It is an educational and fun exploration of the events, people, and inventions that helped to shape the modern world during the Cold War. This episode covers Russian Author and Poet Boris Pasternak, whose epic novel Doctor Zhivago, released in 1957, became an instant classic, won him the Nobel Prize, and ended up a weapon in the Cold War.
In her book Lara: The Untold Love Story that Inspired Dr Zhivago, Anna Pasternak blows the doors of history wide open and changes the way we remember Boris, both for good and for ill.