socialist realism en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable) A Stalinist idealization of the dictatorship of the proletariat applied to art that used realistic techniques to show the struggle for socialism in a positive and optimistic manner.
Derided, lampooned and long since consigned to the dustbin of aesthetic history, the art of Soviet Socialist Realism has not enjoyed a happy afterlife following the collapse of communism.
2009 October 24, Vanessa Thorpe, “New exhibition in Berlin brings forgotten Soviet art back to reality”, in The Observer:
Relateds
capitalist realism · social realism
Translations (16)
de sozialistischer Realismus (art style) · be сацыялісты́чны рэалі́зм (art style) · fr réalisme socialiste (art style) · ms realisme sosialis (art style) · pl realizm socjalistyczny (art style) · uk соцреалі́зм (art style) · az sosialist realizmi (art style) · uk соціалісти́чний реалі́зм (art style) · ru соцреализм (art style) · cmn 社會主義現實主義 /社会主义现实主义 (art style) · pl socrealizm (art style) · ro realism socialist (art style) · fi sosialistinen realismi (art style) · he ריאליזם סוציאליסטי (art style) · mn социалист реализм (art style) · az сосиалист реализми (art style)
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