Book · recommended on 1 episode
Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak ISBN 9780582416956
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Boris Pasternak ISBN 9780582416956
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This book by Boris Pasternak came up once on Lex Fridman in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Vejas Liulevicius. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“seeing the film of Dr zivago and then later reading the novel on which it was based by pastan ... it was magical for the sheer sweep and tragedy and human resilience”— Vejas Liulevicius
The guest here is Vejas Liulevicius: A historian specializing in Germany and Eastern Europe who has lectured extensively on the rise, reign, and fall of communism. He grew up in a Lithuanian American family in Chicago and authored 'The German Myth of the East' (Oxford University Press). Historian Vejas Liulevicius traces the ideas and atrocities of communism and Nazism, from Marx to Stalin, Mao, Hitler, and modern Russia.
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