'The Master and Margarita': An Exuberant Soviet Satire

Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel, which first appeared more than 20 years after his 1940 death, is at once a joyful fantasy and a blistering critique of the terror and authoritarianism of the U.S.S.R.

Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel, which first appeared more than 20 years after his 1940 death, is at once a joyful fantasy and a blistering critique of the terror and authoritarianism of the U.S.S.R.