A book review: M.A. Bulgakov: Annotated bibliographic index. Vol. 2, 1941–1985. Rus. state library of arts; M.V. Mishurovskaya, I.S. Efimova, O.V. Golubeva (comps.); M.V. Mishurovskaya (ed.); A.V. Akimenko (bibliography ed.). Moscow, RGBI, 2021, 816 р.

Abstract

The review presents the second volume of the Bibliographic Index publications on the works of M. Bulgakov of 1941–1985, compiled by the working group of the Russian State Art Library. These two volumes are the first complete set of Russian-language studies of Bulgakov. A brief annotation to each bibliographic unit (about four thousand of them) should be recognized as a significant benefit of this book. The second volume of the Index covers Bulgakov’s “boom” of the 1960s, when the forgotten and never-before-published works were revealed to the reading public, and, primarily, the novel “Master and Margarita.” At that time, numerous memoirs about Bulgakov, the first philological articles about his work, and the first books about him began to appear. It was a period of early academic research on Bulgakov. Therefore, the material of the second volume differs significantly from the first but is no less interesting. The sources are divided into domestic and foreign: the first part includes the texts written by Bulgakov and about him, published in the USSR from 1941 to 1985. The second part of the Index includes the Russian-language editions published in other countries.