Doctor Zhivago

About “Doctor Zhivago”

Dr. Yury Zhivago, a poet, philosopher, and physician, has his life disrupted by war and his love for Lara, the wife of a revolutionary, as his artistic nature makes him vulnerable to Bolshevik brutality. Set between the early 1900s and World War II, the 1957 novel by Boris Pasternak was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987 and became an international bestseller.