The Fatal Eggs

First published in 1925, ‘The Fatal Eggs’ is a satirical science-fiction novella by Mikhail Bulgakov, a Soviet writer, medical doctor, and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century.
As the new actuality of post-Revolution Soviet life commences to sink in, a skillful but bizarre zoologist named Persikov conceives the machine that revolutionizes the development of living organisms by drastically boosting their size and reproductive speeds. Meanwhile, a mysterious plague has wiped out the whole poultry inhabitants of Russia, increasing apprehensions about the government’s capability to provide for its people. Desiring to utilize Persikov’s yet-untested innovation to restore the destroyed chicken population, the secret service seizes Persikov’s machine—with catastrophic consequences.

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (Russian: Михаил Булгаков) was a Russian writer, medical doctor, and playwright. His novel The Master and Margarita, published posthumously, has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.
He also wrote the novel The White Guard and the plays Ivan Vasilievich, Flight (also called The Run), and The Days of the Turbins. He wrote mostly about the horrors of the Russian Civil War and about the fate of Russian intellectuals and officers of the Tsarist Army caught up in revolution and Civil War.
Some of his works (Flight, all his works between the years 1922 and 1926, and others) were banned by the Soviet government, and personally by Joseph Stalin, after it was decided by them that they "glorified emigration and White generals". On the other hand, Stalin loved The Days of the Turbins (also called The Turbin Brothers) very much and reportedly saw it at least 15 times.