Due to Soviet censorship, Mikhail Bulgakov never saw his masterpiece, The Master and Margarita, published. In 1967, twenty years after he was safely dead, it was published in a trimmed version with the omitted sections published underground, through grassroots copiers (samizdat) in what sounds like an early politically motivated sneakernet. The devil, who is called […]
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