Tag: Stalin
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Revolution under the Shadow of the State: Organized Crime in the Soviet Union
Moscow’s Red Square during the Soviet era. Photo: daves_archive_1/Flickr. No changes made. View the license here. By Mike Shirley Introduction “I have no mother and no father. There is only the code, the vory v zakone code.” – Nikolai Luzhin, Eastern Promises[1] In 1971, Voldemar Mirkin, an antiques dealer in the Soviet Union’s thriving black market, came…
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Embodying the Archive: An Analysis of Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita
Poster for production Master and Margarita in Theatre Near the Bridge in Perm (2005). Photo courtesy of Theatre Near the Bridge Perm/Wikimedia Commons. No changes made. View the license here. By Arina Dmitrenko Introduction This paper focuses on Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel, The Master and Margarita (trans. by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, 1997),[1] and its…