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World Service,2 mins

What the Devil finds out when he visits 1930s Moscow

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Professor Julie Curtis tells Bridget Kendall how Mikhail Bulgakov uses satire in his celebrated novel The Master and Margarita to poke fun at Soviet society and the ideas of the Bolshevik revolution. (Photo: Variety Theatre from a series of drawings and paintings on The Master and Margarita by the artist Laura Footes)

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