st. petersburg state university -- when she asks her students have you read doctor zhivago, the answer almostays is no. they have read master and margarita and pieces of the russian literature but zhivago doesn't seem to be on their radar in the same way. c. max [inaudible] >> sure. the movie doesn't form part of our story, but it remains in the relevant terms if you adjust for inflation, etc. it remains one of the best selling movies of all times. its hugely successful and it brought a whole new group of readers to the book and its popularized the zhivago in ways that the novel had not. the soviets hated it. absolutely hated it and it was banned of course. in fact they protested strongly when the american embassy started having private screenings in the apartment of diplomats in moscow that this was another american provocation. the >> [inaudible] -- were you able to discover if there was anything about the handling of zhivago? >> yes, minimal. but there was prior to pasternak winning the nobel prize. in about the three or four months before that the kremlin was getting notices from sweden f