socialist realism

English

Vera Mukhina, Worker and Kolkhoz Woman (1937)

Noun

socialist realism (uncountable)

1. (art) 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.
   • 2009 October 24, Vanessa Thorpe, “New exhibition in Berlin brings forgotten Soviet art back to reality”, in The Observer‎^[1]:

     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.

Translations

art style

• Azerbaijani: sosialist realizmi, сосиалист реализми
• Belarusian: сацыялісты́чны рэалі́зм m (sacyjalistýčny realízm)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 社會主義現實主義／社会主义现实主义 (shèhuì zhǔyì xiànshí zhǔyì)

• Finnish: sosialistinen realismi (fi)
• French: réalisme socialiste (fr) m
• German: sozialistischer Realismus m
• Hebrew: ריאליזם סוציאליסטי (realizm sotsialisti)
• Malay: realisme sosialis
• Mongolian: социалист реализм (socialist realizm)
• Polish: socrealizm (pl) m, realizm socjalistyczny m
• Romanian: realism socialist (ro) n
• Russian: соцреализм (ru) (socrealizm)
• Ukrainian: соціалісти́чний реалі́зм m (socialistýčnyj realízm), соцреалі́зм m (socrealízm)

See also

• capitalist realism
• social realism

Further reading

• socialist realism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia