Socialist Realism

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First all union congress of soviet writers

August 17 1934, Defined Socialist Realism, declared it the only acceptable approach to art and art criticism.

Stalin Death

Died on March 5 1953. Krushchev made his famous speech on the Crimes of the Stalin Era at the 20th party congress on 24-25 Feb 1956.

Socialist Realism

Is the basic method of soviet literature and literary criticism. It demands of the artist the truthful, historically concrete representation of reality in its revolutionary development. The truth and historical completeness of the artistic representation of reality must be combined with the task of ideological transformation and education of the working man in the spirit of socialism.

Principles of Socialist realism

Progessive action. works set in the historical past must point toward the victories of modern communism. individual struggle against traces of bourgeois thinking, Positive Hero, Building Socialism can only lead to a happy ending, so any conflict must be between good and better.

Moscow Art Theatre

Survived through the Soviet Union by doing Socialist Realism plays. as well as propaganda plays

Zhdanovism

extreme Stalinist repression and control of arts and culture


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