Mikhail Bulgakov (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
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As a young man Bulgakov lived through Russia’s revolution and civil war without taking sides. When he began publishing in the mid-1920’s, he took an objective view, as in his novel The White Guard (1926), later adapted for stage as Days of Turbins. Both works were very popular, a fact that led eventually to Bulgakov’s ostracism. All of his works take satirical views of the changed state of affairs in the Soviet Union. His play Zoyka’s Apartment (1926), which satirizes the housing problems, as well as the new Soviet philistines, had to...
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