‘The Master and Margarita’: An Exuberant Soviet Satire
Wall Street Journal
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.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-master-and-margarita-mikhail-bulgakov-soviet-satire-f9ce3445