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...premise reeks of an archaic racial chauvinism. His invectives against the spiritual emptiness of western culture, which he pitted against the fabled purity of the Russian soul, are familiar bromides of Russia’s national mythology, but they barely concealed his contempt for the “atheistic?? values of liberal democracy and human rights. As an intransigent Slavic nationalist, he failed to see the roots of Bolshevik violence in the repressive habits of his beloved prelapsarian Romanov Russia. And his smarmy coziness with Putin, an autocrat for whom he had nothing but praise, belies his fidelity...
...genres, it always maintains a riveting, almost Chekhovian balance between the hilarious and the tragic. For a book that Bulgakov began writing in 1928, only to be published posthumously in a heavily censored 1966 edition, the book still feels vibrant and relevant today. Harvard students, living in a relatively atheistic??or, at best, agnostic—community, the questions raised in the book about the nature and need of faith reverberate strongly. And aside from the philosophical scintillation the book provides, it’s just downright entertaining...
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