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socialist realism
[tr. Russ. sotsialistícheskiĭ realízm.]
The official theory of art and literature of the Soviet Communist party, according to which the artist's or writer's work should reflect and commend the life and ideals of socialist society. Also attrib.
1934M. Eastman Artists in Uniform (rev. ed.) i. ii. 16 The present creative method in proletarian art and literature..is ‘Socialist Realism’. Ibid. 17 Socialist Realism means seeing all reality as a development toward socialism. 1940Graves & Hodge Long Week-End xxiii. 402 The hope that fact-finding would bring to fruition the theory of socialist realism. 1967G. Steiner Lang. & Silence 390 Her recent novels betray the contortions of a genuine artist trying to come to terms with the grey half-truths of ‘socialist realism’. 1978Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts Dec. 64/2 In 1934 the term ‘socialist realism’ came into current use, and architecture suffered from various interpretations of it.
Hence socialist-realist n. and a.
1935G. Struve Soviet Russ. Literature xiv. 247 It is difficult to say why Sholokhov's Upturned Soil should be regarded as a work of a Socialist Realist and not of a realist tout court. 1945H. Read Coat of Many Colours vi. 27 The ‘socialist-realists’ in Russia, who believe that the function of art is primarily to further the cause of socialism. 1958Listener 6 Nov. 727/2 The whole fabric of the so-called ‘socialist-realist’ architectural philosophy [in the U.S.S.R.], which was actually pseudo-classical, has collapsed. 1964Ann. Reg. 1963 229 He [sc. Mr Gomulka]..announced that socialist-realist art would receive special support. 1977V. S. Pritchett Gentle Barbarian xiii. 218 The crude, black and white, schematic works of the Socialist Realists of our time. |