Mikhail Bulgakov's satirical masterpiece 'The Master and Margarita', featuring a visit by the Devil to Soviet Moscow, was:
- Published immediately to great state acclaim
- Burned by the author and published posthumously decades later
- Written in French and translated to Russian
- Banned only in the West
Answer: Burned by the author and published posthumously decades later
Fearing arrest, Bulgakov burned an early draft. He rewrote it in secret, and it was finally published in a censored form in 1966, 26 years after his death.