Is Comrade Bulgakov Dead?: Mikhail Bulgakov and the Moscow Art Theatre

Hardback

Main Details

Title Is Comrade Bulgakov Dead?: Mikhail Bulgakov and the Moscow Art Theatre
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Anatoly Smelyansky
SeriesBiography and Autobiography
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:384
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
Category/GenreBiographies and autobiography
Literary studies - from c 1900 -
ISBN/Barcode 9780413630704
ClassificationsDewey:891.784209
Audience
General
Undergraduate
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Methuen Drama
Publication Date 11 October 1993
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

A portrait of the writer Mikhail Bulgakov, fighting for his work and his life in a society riven with fear of Stalin's tyranny Mikhail Bulgakov was born in Kiev in 1891. He started as a career writing articles and satiric short stories about the revolution and the economic reconstruction in the young Soviet state. He drew on these writings in many of his stage plays which brought him into conflict with the authorities. He died in 1940.

Author Biography

Russia's leading theatre writer and critic, Anatoly Smelyanky graduated from the Gorky Pedagogical Institute, Kiev. He worked as head of the literary department at Gorky Theatre of Young Spectators, at the same time working as a theatre critic and historian. In 1975 he was invited to Moscow as Head of the literary department of the Theater of the Soviet Army. From 1980, he worked at the Moscow Academic Art Theatre - first as head of the literary department, then as Deputy Artistic Director. He is currently the head of the Moscow Art Theatre School and MXAT Associate Artistic Director.