Free Speech How Stalin Toyed With Mikhail Bulgakov The author of The Master and Margarita faced a bewildering mixture of rewards and censorship. Jesse Walker | From the August/September 2022 issue ...

One night in 1935, writer Mikhail Bulgakov went to a wild party at the U.S. ambassador's residence in Moscow. Critics suspect that evening inspired the phantasmagoric scene of Satan's full-moon ...

Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov's classic, The Master and Margarita, ridiculed Soviet leaders and bureaucracy. It wasn't published until 27 years after his death, but it still resonates with Russians.

John Hodge’s new play Collaborators has a truly high concept: When Mikhail Bulgakov reluctantly accepts a commission to create a play glamorizing Stalin’s life, he ends up exchanging places ...

Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940), best known for his magic realist novel The Master and Margarita, despised the Soviet regime.

It was written during the 1930s by author and physician Mikhail Bulgakov, though, for many years, Stalin's police state prevented its publication.

Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin and famed Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov are collaborators in “Collaborators.” They didn’t conspire in real life, but Spooky Action Theater’s latest ...

Himes’ book, Mikhail and Margarita, is a fictional reimagining of Bulgakov’s life and death. While it uses real moments from Bulgakov’s life, and from the world of Soviet Russia, the novel is able to ...

The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov, translated by Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O’Connor (Random House, $13). “The various Russian/Soviet avant-garde movements produced a ...

Stalin knew the telephone was a useful instrument in his cat and mouse games. In 1930 he called Mikhail Bulgakov, a satirist and one of Russia's most popular writers. Stalin had heard that ...

Diaries and Selected Letters Author: Mikhail Bulgakov, Roger Cockrell ISBN-13: 978-1847493033 Publisher: Alma Classics Guideline Price: £18.99 ...