![]() ![]() ![]() Bulgakov subsequently wrote a play based on the story in 1926 for the Moscow Art Theater. The book was rejected for publication in 1925, due in part to the influence of Lev Kamenev, then a leading Party official. It was filmed in Russian and Italian language versions, and was adapted in English as a play and an opera. Since then, the novella has become a cultural phenomenon in Russia, known and discussed by people "from schoolchildren to politicians." It was almost immediately adapted into a movie, which was aired in late 1988 on First Channel of Soviet Television, gained almost universal acclaim and attracted many readers to the original Bulgakov text. It is generally interpreted as an allegory of the communist revolution and "the revolution's misguided attempt to radically transform mankind." Its publication was initially prohibited in the Soviet Union, but it circulated in samizdat until it was officially released in the country in 1987. A biting satire of Bolshevism, it was written in 1925 at the height of the New Economic Policy, a period during which communism appeared to be relaxing in the Soviet Union. Heart of a Dog (Russian: Собачье сердце, romanized: Sobachye serdtse) is a novella by Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov. ![]()
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