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Bright Shield, Mikhail Bulgakov’s semi autobiographical first novel, may be the tale of the Turbin household in Kiev in 1918. Alexei, Elena, and Nikolka Turbin have simply dropped their mother—their dad had died decades before—and end up plunged in to the chaotic civil war that erupted in the Ukraine in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. Bulgakov produces an excellent image of the existential crises triggered by the innovation and the loss of social, ethical, and political certainties, within the framework of the family’s individual loss and the social uncertainty surrounding them. He confronts the audience with the staggering cruelty that sculpted Euro existence aside at the start of the final century in addition to with the remarkable ways the Turbins maintained their humanity. In this quantity Marian Schwartz, a number one translator, provides the first full and correct interpretation of the defined authentic wording of Bulgakov’s book.