In 1967 a complete version was published in France by the YMCA Press and, soon after that, publication came in Germany by Possev. In stark opposition to the Bolshevik’s cultural norms, the novel depicts the devil as the main character and revolves around the grand themes of Christianity.Ī “drawer masterpiece,” The Master and Margarita was first published long after the author’s death, between 19, yet in a highly censored form (12 percent of the text was cut by Soviet censors for references to the secret police, nudity, and coarse language). The Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940) wrote The Master and Margarita ( Master i Margarita) between 1928 and early 1940 in a time when the official ideology of the Soviet state was based on militant atheism and obligatory historical optimism.
Analysis of Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita
