Diaries & Selected Letters

This volume of personal writings offers an intimate view of the celebrated Russian author’s life and creative process in the face of Soviet censorship. Best known for his biting satire of Soviet society,  The Master and Margarita , Mikhail Bulgakov kept meticulous journals, written with keen humor and insight, about his day to day life in Moscow as well as the wider social and political life of early 20th century Russia. But his diaries stop midway through the 1920s—the Bolshevik secret pol