Seance

Mikhail Bulgakov, Julia Shmatko

• Editorial: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
• Año: 2022
• ISBN:
  9780880028196
• Categoría: Literature
• Categoría: Ancient & Classical Literary Collections

Seance is a famouse short story of ukra?nian wrighter Mikhail Bulgakov.Bulgakov was a Soviet playwright, novelist, and short story writer best known for his humor and penetrating satire. Because of their realism and humor, Bulgakov's works enjoyed great popularity, but their trenchant criticism of Soviet mores was increasingly unacceptable to the authorities.

Notes

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Ah, be, ve, ge, de, e, zhe, ze, ee – the pronunciation of the first nine letters of the Russian alphabet.

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2

Glavkhim – the abridgement for the Russian Main Department of Consumer Goods Industry.

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3

Zheleskom – the abridgement for the Russian Committee for Timber Procurement and Equipment for Railways.

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The Extraordinary Commission (commonly known as Cheka) was the first of a succession of Sovietsecret-police organizations. Ostensibly set up to protect the revolution from reactionary forces, i.e., "class enemies" such as the bourgeoisie and members of the clergy, it soon became the repression tool against all political opponents of the communist regime. At the direction of Lenin, the Cheka performed mass arrests, imprisonments, torture, and executions without trial.

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