Due to conflicting trends in Hungary, following them and especially forecasting them is extremely difficult. Free cultural development that matches to the global era (still) exists, while the anti-liberal, quasi-nationalist past-admiring cultural policy of authorities gains ground.

Master and Margarita was written in a period when the terror of Stalin put an end to the "papier-máché rationalism" of the 1920s and when mass arrests, losses of livelihood, hundreds of thousands of people sent to lagers and death sentences created an atmosphere where impossible was very possible and where the world of fantasies, reality and unreality easily merged. The study also presents the philosophy of Bulgakov and the moral stand featuring his works in this historic context. The real evil is "represented" in the book not by trivial trick players and neighbours reporting each other hoping for getting a flat as a reward but by Berlioz who has no ideas; his only goal is to service the power unscrupulously. The existence of Berlioz thus in fact a non-existence – and that could be the judgement of Bulgakov on all power that became an end in itself.

Protecting the environment and the globe are not the same. Ecumenical ecology at its best comes forth with the idea of green capitalism but the idea and practice of an Earth-level environment protection is beyond its reach.