LITTRANS 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Russian Literature, Proletariat, Antireligion
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Littrans 204 - lecture 18 - master and margarita day 1,2, and 3 (3/3 - 3/6) Kiev would change govt. frequently during civil war. Bulgakov was a doctor who served in the military as a medic. Was on the anti - bolshevik side. Separate from white army lots of movement of people between white and ukrainian army. Moves to moscow after end of civil war felt he wanted to become a writer and tries to pursue it in moscow right away journalist at first. Wanted to publish but wasn"t ready to make compromises and subscribe to imposed ideological frameworks during 20"s. Growing tension between ideological differences and writers are pushed to their extremes in limitations. Denied permission to leave russia to write freely. Zamyatin left in 1931 with same appeal to paris and died in 1947. Babel had visited france for a year to visit family and comes back.