Word: mikhail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Silence. No other first novel has ever had such an exclusive private printing, or such an exclusive first audience. Khrushchev wanted to use the book as a weapon in his own power struggle with the hardliners, Mikhail Suslov and Frol Kozlov. By Khrushchev's order, the script was set in type and 20 copies were run off on the Swedish-built presses the Kremlin reserves for state documents. The copies were distributed to members of the Presidium. Then, at Khrushchev's summons, the Presidium met. The members sat at a long table, each with his copy of the novel...
...HEART OF A DOG by Mikhail Bulgakov. 146 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
...Soviets are rehabilitating Mikhail Bulgakov, the satirical novelist and playwright who died in 1940, but so far they have not screwed their courage up to the point of publishing The Heart of a Dog, a novel recently spirited out of Russia in manuscript form. Bulgakov's complex and comical allegory, The Master and Margarita, was judged fit to be published in his homeland, after some ideological laundering. That was followed by Black Snow, a cudgeling of Stanislavsky. But these satires of Soviet life were devious enough so that the literary bureaucracy could pretend that they were not satire...
BLACK SNOW by Mikhail Bulgakov. 190 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...intended by the author-is that if making an enemy is unavoidable and the choice is between a writer and a psychopath, the prudent citizen will choose the psychopath. Konstantin Stanislavsky, the Russian director whose method of acting became the Method, had the imprudence to anger Writer Mikhail Bulgakov. He got away with it until 27 years after his own death, and 25 years after Bulgakov's. For most of that period Bulgakov's work was banned in the Soviet Union and unknown to the rest of the world, and Stanislavsky's reputation was safe...