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Friday, January 07, 2005
Socialist Realism
Originating in the aesthetic philosophy of Maxim Gorki, it was from its adoption by the Union of Soviet Writers in 1934 at the Congress of Soviet Writers the official policy of the Soviet Union:
"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. Moreover, the truthfulness and historically concreteness of the artistic representation of reality must be linked with the task of ideological transformation and education of workers in the spirit of socialism." (more)
"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. Moreover, the truthfulness and historically concreteness of the artistic representation of reality must be linked with the task of ideological transformation and education of workers in the spirit of socialism." (more)
