Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature for this work.
Dr. Zhivago
War and Peace
The Gulag Archipelago
My Sister, Life
Dr. Zhivago. The award was greeted in the Soviet Union with disgust. Pasternak was denounced in Communist newspaper, Pravda. He and his wife were threatened with imprisonment in a gulag. He was expelled from the Soviet Writers Union but was posthumously reinstated in 1987.