The novel's structure was conceived from the demoralizing reality of Stalinist regime. The reality of the contemporary Moscow felt nightmarish and phantasmagorical while the story of Pontuis Pilate and Jesus Christ reads like a historical account.

The Master and Margarita was one of the first magic realism novel. The author challenges both dogmatism of the Gospels and Soviet atheism

Again, the culture of transparency will contribute to enforcing new norms of ethics and accountability.

Another problem with doxxing worth considering is that people may have an emotional response to a picture without contextualizing it. They might respond strongly and repost the picture or video, but their indignation might be premature and unjustified.

Nellie Bowles, a journalist covering technology for the New York Times in the San Francisco Bay Area, examines how doxxing, even with the best intentions in mind, can become problematic and have unintended ethical ramifications. One of the problems arising from “doxxing” is a probability of error and misidentification. Another serious potential ethical problem is labeling people for the rest of their lives without any hope for redemption.

• From the very first page the Soviet reader was taken aback by the discussion about Jesus Christ. One of the tenets of the Soviet society was atheism. By mere introduction of Satan as a main character of the novel, Bulgakov was making a daring political statement.

• In contemporary Russia, the novel is still considered the most popular Russian novel because it captured the essence of the Soviet Union times. I think Russia still had the remaining bureaucracy along with the Soviet mentality that the modern readers recognize today. On the other hand, the novel raises the universal questions about the nature of good and evil and moral implications of our life choices in an original way that resonates with the modern day readers.

• Julie Curtis: “To start within Russia, when it appeared, it was an extraordinary contrast with what had come before. The middle part of the twentieth century had seen the social realism, the official doctrine of Russian literature, the production novels “boy meets tractor,” rather dismal texts. And suddenly, this novel appeared, which had been hidden for decades. And suddenly, this novel appeared which had been hidden for decades. And it was exuberant, it was funny. It talked about the devil, it talked about literature, it talked about the theatre. It defied all the conventions of the social realism. And world-wide too, I think, the people just warm to the text that is extremely inventive and is not like any other texts in any other literature.”

By exercising the informal power of sousveillance and public harassment, there is a danger of creating a disciplinary regime regulated by a mob mentality.

The author implies that Rosey Blair’s behaviour is not a single case of a misjudged behaviour but rather a symptom of the paradox of our society. On one hand, we are supposed to respect other people’s privacy. On the other hand, the very structure of existing social media platforms encourages their users to exploit any opportunity to increase the number of their followers or/and increase their visibility.

Book review by Viv Groskop,a journalist, author, cultural critic, and comedian, a graduate of Cambridge University and the University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies. The author thinks that this novel transcends the time and geographic boundaries because of its lightweight humor and wit.

A most wide-spread interpretation of "peace, not light."

This idea surprised me. Who are the Russians who are indifferent to politics and current affairs? It is mostly what Russian always discuss in private: politics and current affairs. Another matter is that there are no framework to insure democracy and hence their skepticism about the possibility of equal participation in the political process.

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Laura D. Weeks is an independent scholar and former Acting Chair of the Department of Russian at Wheaton College.

Bulgakov's museum in Moscow. It was open in 2007 with the purpose of promoting multifaceted discussion of Bulgakov's work and historical context of his novels.

Knowledge community specializing on interpreting the novel.

A radio podcast exploring the novel and its cultural influences

Connection between Book's symbols and Soviet symbols of the era.

This seems to be so obvious: check your sources before reading to avoid confirmation bias, yet I never do that. I usually check the source only when I don't agree with the article or the content does not seem trustworthy.

This statement did not seem probable to me so I search for "domestic terrorism in the US" on the web. I was surprised to find out that it was true, and that this topic has been debating ever since The Patriot Act was signed. Wikipedia provided a link to the NPR article about it.

Lecture by professor Chudakova on Master and Margarita and contemporary literary trends.

This website has plenty of illustrations of The Master and Margarita, made by various artists from all over the world. The website is in Russian.

The website provides information on the metadata about the novel, the author and the locations of the event taking place in the novel. It is a perfect place for the people who read the novel for the first time, and would like to decipher some of the symbols and allusions in this work. The guide through the novel included annotations per each chapter.

Symbolism in Master and Margarita

Fairy tales in The Master and Margarita

Comparison of Gounod and The Master and Margarita

Pontius Pilate in The Master and Margarita