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'Forty of the Forties'' - is a short novel by Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891-1940), an outstanding Russian writer, playwright and theatre worker. *** A poor Moscovite feels excluded in a native town. Bourgeois depreciatingly look at him as though he were a proletarian, but even proletariat doesn't consider him to be an insider. With sad in the face he watches at the new Bolshevik system, but ...