Manuscripts Don't Burn: Mikhail Bulgakov: A Life in Letters and Diaries

J. A. E. Curtis

The Russian playwright and novelist Mikhail Bulgakov (1891 - 1940) is now widely acknowledged as one of the giants of twentieth-century Soviet literature, ranking with such luminaries as Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn. In his own lifetime, however, a casualty of Stalinist repression, he was scarcely publish...