This epic tale about the effects of the Russian revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the soviet union until 1987. One of the results of its publication in the west Was Pasternak's compl...This epic tale about the effects of the Russian revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the soviet union until 1987. One of the results of its publication in the west Was Pasternak's complete rejection by soviet authorities; when he was awarded the nobel prize for literature in 1958 he was compelled to decline it.