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Readers are often left uncertain how to understand the rich meanings of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic and beautiful novel The Master and Margarita. To what extent is it political? Or religious? And how should we interpret the Satanic Woland? This Companion guides the readers through the work's thematic, ... Read More about A Reader's Companion to Mikhail Bulgakov's the Master and Margarita (Companions to Russian Literature)

Published in 1987, this book was the first full-length interpretative study in English of the later writings of the outstanding Soviet novelist and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940). The focus is the 1930s, the period when Bulgakov was writing The Master and Margarita, an extraordinary novel t... Read More about Bulgakov's Last Decade: The Writer as Hero (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature)

After Evgeny Zamiatin emigrated from the USSR in 1931, he was systematically airbrushed out of Soviet literary history, despite the central role he had played in the cultural life of Russia's northern capital for nearly twenty years. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, his writings have graduall... Read More about The Englishman from Lebedian: A Life of Evgeny Zamiatin (Ars Rossica)

After Evgeny Zamiatin emigrated from the USSR in 1931, he was systematically airbrushed out of Soviet literary history, despite the central role he had played in the cultural life of Russia's northern capital for nearly twenty years. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, his writings have graduall... Read More about The Englishman from Lebedian: A Life of Evgeny Zamiatin (Ars Rossica)

How and why does the stage, and those who perform upon it, play such a significant role in the social makeup of modern Russia, Ukraine and Belarus? In New Drama in Russian, Julie Curtis brings together an international team of leading scholars and practitioners to tackle this complex question. New D... Read More about New Drama in Russian: Performance, Politics and Protest in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus (Library of Modern Russia)

Readers are often left uncertain how to understand the rich meanings of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic and beautiful novel The Master and Margarita. To what extent is it political? Or religious? And how should we interpret the Satanic Woland? This Companion guides the readers through the work's thematic, ... Read More about A Reader's Companion to Mikhail Bulgakov's the Master and Margarita (Companions to Russian Literature)