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SOCIALIST REALISM

Soviet artistic and literary doctrine. The role of literature and art in Soviet society was redefined in 1932 when the newly created Union of Soviet Writers proclaimed socialist realism as compulsory literary practice. As conceived by Stalin, Zhdanov, and Gorky, socialist realism prescribed a generally optimistic picture of socialist reality and of the development of the Communist revolution. Its purpose was education in the spirit of socialism. Its practice is marked by strict adherence to party doctrine and to conventional techniques of realism. Socialist realism has been widely condemned as stifling to artistic values. After the death of Stalin in 1953 some relaxation of strictures was evident, although socialist realism continued as the official doctrine. A similar approach to the creation of art and literature was also enforced for a time in the People's Republic of China.

See studies by A. Tertz (tr. 1961) and C. V. James (1973); M. Slonim, Soviet Russian Literature (rev. ed. 1967).

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How Life Writes the Book: Real Socialism and Socialist Realism in Stalin's Russia
Book by Thomas Lahusen; Cornell University Press, 1997
Subjects:	Azhaev, Vasilii, Azhaev, Vasilii--Daleko Ot Moskvy, Socialist Realism In Literature, Soviet Union--Social Conditions
...any qualities of literariness, socialist realism of the late 1940s and early 1950s...beyond genre. How does socialist realism relate to utopia? The classical...1 In the world of socialist realism, this coherence is constantly...

Documents of American Realism and Naturalism
Book by Donald Pizer; Southern Illinois University Press, 1988
Subjects:	American Fiction--History And Criticism, Naturalism In Literature, Realism In Literature
...the action in works of critical realism, and this reflected the process...only created in our own time by socialist realism, the main feature of which is...excellent analysis of critical realism cum Luk cs versus socialist realism...

Critical Realism and Marxism
Book by Andrew Brown, Steve Fleetwood, John Michael Roberts; Routledge, 2002
Subjects:	Communism And Social Sciences, Critical Realism, Philosophy, Marxist
...presented at the 2000 Critical Realism conference at Lancaster University...Verso. Bhaskar, R. (1986) Socialist Realism and Human Emancipation , London...Collier, A. (1989) Scientific Realism and Socialist Thought , Hemel Hempstead...

Explaining Society: Critical Realism in the Social Sciences
Book by Berth Danermark, Mats Ekström, Liselotte Jakobsen, Jan Ch. Karlsson; Routledge, 2002
Subjects:	Critical Realism, Social Sciences--Methodology, Sociology--Methodology
...Blackwell. Bunge, Mario (1993) Realism and antirealism in social science...Collier, Andrew (1989) Scientific Realism and Socialist Thought , Hemel Hempstead: Harvester...Wheatsheaf. --(1994) Critical Realism: An Introduction to Roy Bhaskars...

Critical Realism in Economics: Development and Debate
Book by Steve Fleetwood; Routledge, 1999
Subjects:	Critical Realism, Economics--Methodology, Economics--Philosophy, Economics--Sociological Aspects
...Routledge. --(1994b) Realism and Hayek: A Case of Continuous...Neither Fundamentalism Nor "New Realism": A Critical Realist Perspective on Current Divisions in Socialist Theory, Capital and Class...1996) Post Keynesianism, Realism and Keynes General Theory...

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Socialist Realism in the Australian Literary Context: With Specific Reference to the Writing of Katharine Susannah Prichard
Journal article by Cath Ellis; Journal of Australian Studies, 1997
Subjects:	Australian literature--Political aspects, Prichard, Katharine Susannah--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Socialist realism in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Socialist realism in the Australian literary context...essentially inadequate commentaries on socialist realism in Prichards work. I want to look...criticism is what we called the method of socialist realism.(5) Even though other speeches...

Jeffrey Kinkley. Corruption and Realism in Late Socialist China: The Return of the Political Novel
Journal article by Shuyu Kong; China Review International, Vol. 14, 2007
Subjects:	Books--Book reviews, Corruption and Realism in Late Socialist China: The Return of the Political Novel (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...Kinkley. Corruption and Realism in Late Socialist China: The Return...the presocialist and socialist periods" (p. 146...features of "critical realism with Chinese characteristics...predecessors within the socialist realism tradition. They...

Socialist Realism and the Success of Famous All over Town
Journal article by Arnd Bohm; International Fiction Review, Vol. 34, 2007
Subjects:	American literature--Analysis, American literature--Mexican American authors, Authors--Works, Famous All Over Town (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, James, Daniel--Works, Mexican American literature (Spanish)--Analysis, Mexican American literature--Analysis, Novels--Criticism and interpretation, Social realism--Portrayals, Writers--Works
Socialist Realism and the Success of Famous All over...his play Winter Soldiers (1942). Socialist realism in literary production has varied...the positive hero, as expected in socialist realism. The wavering between succumbing...

Modernism and Socialist Realism: the Case of Wang Meng
Journal article by William Tay; World Literature Today, Vol. 65, 1991
Subjects:	Books--Reviews, Literature, Modern--20th Century--History And Criticism
...famous BrechtLukacs debates over realism and modernism. Countering Lukacss...what is conventionally known as socialist realism. 16 University of California...Bertolt Brecht, "Popularity and Realism"," in Aesthetics and Politics...

Fictions of "Going Over": Henry Green and the New Realism
Journal article by Carol A. Wipf-Miller; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 44, 1998
Subjects:	English literature--1930-1939, Green, Henry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Living (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Pack My Bag (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Socialist realism in literature--Analysis
...anticipating the new or socialist realism of the 30s - so much...extended view of the socialist society of the future...expect that if the new realism prepared the way for...this respect, the new realism necessarily overlaps...

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Socialist Realism: From Stalin to Sots
Magazine article by J. Hoberman; Artforum International, Vol. 32, October 1993
Subjects:	Russia--Art, Socialism--Influence
Socialist realism: from Stalin to Sots by J. Hoberman...Yugoslavia, is a form of self-conscious Socialist Realism. Characters discuss the most intimate...Abram Tertz. Under the regime of Socialist Realism, "irony was replaced by pathos...

Britain's Art Is in the Grip of a Soviet-Style Elite. for a Socialist Realism, Read Conceptualism. by the Way, They're Ripping off the Taxpayer, Too
Magazine article by David Lee; New Statesman, Vol. 126, July 4, 1997
Subjects:	Art and society--Analysis, United Kingdom--Art
...Soviet-style elite. For a socialist realism, read conceptualism. By the...Britain and the stranglehold of socialist realism on the artistic life...in the old Soviet Union. For socialist realism read conceptualism...

Ernesto Goes to the Movies: The Motorcycle Diaries, Brought to the Screen by Robert Redford, Shows Us the Young, Pre-Revolutionary Guevara. Call It Soft Socialist Realism
Magazine article by J. Hoberman; The American Prospect, Vol. 15, October 2004
Subjects:	Motion pictures--Movie reviews, The Motorcycle Diaries (Book)--Movie reviews
...Revolutionary Guevara. Call It Soft Socialist Realism. by J. Hoberman HE WAS, PER...constant presence--the New Socialist Man, model for several generations...is more an example of soft socialist realism. Che cannot tell a lie...

Introduction: A Socialist Magazine in the American Century
Magazine article by Christopher Phelps; Monthly Review, Vol. 51, May 1999
Subjects:	Journalism, Socialist, Marxist economics, Monthly Review (Periodical)--History, Periodicals, Socialist journalism
...tendencies in society." Socialist aspirations, even if they...celebration," were a source of realism that Monthly Review refused...worst period for American socialists in the entire twentieth...It is something of a socialist Noahs ark - two Pauls...Hubermans, a boat that allowed socialists to outlive an ideological...Phelps, "Independent Socialist Clubs/International Socialists," 348-51, and "Draper...

Socialist Who Loved Keats: The Late Irving Howe ... Was a Beacon of a Certain Kind of Intellectual and Moral Possibility
Magazine article by Nathan Glick; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 281, January 1998
Subjects:	Howe, Irving, Intellectual life, Socialists
Socialist Who Loved Keats: The Late Irving Howe...a period that saw a steady decline of socialist movements and an almost unanimous acceptance...persisted in calling himself a democratic socialist, not because he expected socialism to...

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Sinclair's Socialist 'Jungle' Redone in Masterful Color
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 25, 2004
Subjects:	Sinclair, Upton
Sinclairs Socialist Jungle Redone in Masterful Color. Byline...I cannot put a price on the partly socialist propaganda comic. However, because...connoisseurs will consider the passion of his realism a pop-art pleasure to pay for. Loki...

'Our Challenge Is to Inspire Ambition' Interview with a Promising Private Sector Career in Prospect, the Now Head of One of the UK's Largest Urban Regeneration Companies, and an Avowed Socialist, Cut It Short to Devote Himself to the North-East's Economic Well-Being
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), November 20, 2006
Subjects:	Real estate industry
...Companies, and an Avowed Socialist, Cut It Short to Devote Himself...companies, and an avowed socialist, cut it short to devote himself...process before." Dochertys realism about what regeneration can...public sector career. "Am I a socialist? I guess I am. I have been...

Making Soviet Art, Leftie Art
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 28, 2003
...oriented to the masses, and thus "Socialist Realism" came into being. An entire system...in the frozen forms of Socialist Realism?" which is followed by a briefer...Ernesto Cardenal: "The socialist realism of the Russians was merely so much...

Russian Impressions; Soviet-Era Landscapes Surveyed at Meridian International Center
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 30, 2008
Subjects:	Artists--Surveys
...figurative propaganda of Soviet socialist realism. An exhibit at Washingtons Meridian...rebelling against Soviet socialist realism. Their independence was spurred...Mr. Timkov shunned doctrinaire realism to achieve a distinctive vision...

Symbols of War and Peace Strike a Chord in Landmark Picasso Show
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), May 21, 2010
...Party was problematic. Its leaders often approved of his message but not of the methods of conveying it - preferring Socialist Realism over his abstract artistic style. He was contrary even in his use of the dove as a symbol of peace - once saying...

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Socialist Realism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SOCIALIST REALISM Soviet artistic and literary doctrine...of Soviet Writers proclaimed socialist realism as compulsory literary practice. As...Stalin, Zhdanov, and Gorky, socialist realism prescribed a generally optimistic picture...

Russian Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...poetic works. A reaction against realism manifested itself in the rise of...Revolution of 1917. His passionate realism was echoed in the stories and dramas...purges of the intelligentsia, and socialist realism was proclaimed as the guiding principle...

German Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Karl Borne and Heinrich Heine . Realism was consolidated in the influential...form of classicism. The theory of realism was further developed by the school...generally upheld the tenets of socialist realism , while those in the west were...

Czech Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Modern Czech Literature After 1890 realism gained force with the writings...writing toward Russia ensued, and socialist realism became dominant in Czech literature...of the strictures of socialist realism was evident in the 1950s and 60s...

Gorky, Maxim
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the founder of the doctrine of socialist realism . Instilled by his grandmother...turned to writing novels of social realism. Of these, Mother (1906) had...revealed, within its devotion to realism, a strong poetic strain and an...

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