"Your Novel Has Some More Surprises in Store for You": The Specificity of the Fantastic in The Master and Margarita

For a long time the view that predominated in Soviet social science was that, with the victory of the socialist revolution and the building of socialism, the working class in the USSR had no goals and tasks that were its own and that differed from those of other strata of society, and that consequently the classic methods of workers' struggle were inapplicable in resolving any social problems that arose.